Fix crash on newer pythons #1499
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distutils was removed in python 3.12, causing the import of find_executable to fail. According to the python devs, find_executable was never intended as an external interface to begin with (see python issue #39260[^1]). This replaces it with shutil.which. [^1]: https://bugs.python.org/issue39260#msg359644
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distutils was removed in python 3.12, causing the import of
find_executable to fail. According to the python devs, find_executable
was never intended as an external interface to begin with (see python
issue #392601). This replaces find_executable with shutil.which,
which is available on all pythons supported by thefuck.
Four tox tests fail, but they are not related to this change (and they
failed in the previous version too).
I notice a few other PRs for the same issue; is thefuck still maintained?
Footnotes
https://bugs.python.org/issue39260#msg359644 ↩