Python 3.12.3 removed Disttools, breaking install

[epugh]

Hi, I am using Python version 3.12.3. I am going through the tutorial https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/tutorials/chatbot-tutorial/chatbot-rag-app/backend and on the step:

pip install -r requirements.txt

it fails due to:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

A quick google tells me Distutils is removed in 3.12: https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/distutils.html