From a14f1412ce269cd0869f56b589e8e3209b7ac215 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pradyun Gedam <pradyunsg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:35:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] :newspaper:

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+Ensure that things work correctly in environments where setuptools-injected
+``distutils`` is available by default. This is done by cooperating with
+setuptools' injection logic to ensure that pip uses the ``distutils`` from the
+Python standard library instead.