No module named 'distutils' on Python 3.12

[SyberiaK]

Steps to reproduce

1. Install Python 3.12
2. Install speech_recognition and pyaudio with pip (pip install SpeechRecognition and pip install pyaudio)
3. Create a Python script with this code:

import speech_recognition as sr

mic = sr.Microphone()
print('hello')

4. Launch the script.

Expected behaviour

hello printed in the console

Actual behaviour

Because distutils was removed in Python 3.12, we get ModuleNotFoundError: module named 'distutils'

System information

My Python version is 3.12.

[sapozhkov]

try
pip install setuptools

found on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77931666/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-distutils-how-to-solve-this-in-macos

[Paulprojects8711]

try pip install setuptools

found on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77931666/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-distutils-how-to-solve-this-in-macos

i had the same issue and that actually fixed it thank you

[ftnext]

Thank you for reporting this issue, finding a solution, trying and sharing a result.

ref: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html#summary-release-highlights

gh-95299: Do not pre-install setuptools in virtual environments created with venv. This means that distutils, setuptools, pkg_resources, and easy_install will no longer available by default; to access these run pip install setuptools in the activated virtual environment.

I wonder adding pip install setuptools to README.

[tphollis]

I'm trying to use the pip install setuptools but I still get the error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'". Actually, any time I try to use a pip command, that's the result. any ideas on how to get around this? I'm running on Ubuntu if that helps