"DeprecationWarning: distutils Version classes are deprecated. Use packaging.version instead."

[bersbersbers]

Using Visual Studio Code v1.80.0 with the Python extension v2023.12.0 and Python 3.11.4, I often get this warning:

Failed to enable GUI event loop integration for 'qt'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\bers\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2023.12.0\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\_vendored\pydevd\pydev_ipython\matplotlibtools.py", line 30, in do_enable_gui
    enable_gui(guiname)
  File "c:\Users\bers\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2023.12.0\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\_vendored\pydevd\pydev_ipython\inputhook.py", line 540, in enable_gui
    return gui_hook(app)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\bers\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2023.12.0\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\_vendored\pydevd\pydev_ipython\inputhook.py", line 176, in enable_qt
    from pydev_ipython.qt_for_kernel import QT_API, QT_API_PYQT5
  File "c:\Users\bers\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2023.12.0\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\_vendored\pydevd\pydev_ipython\qt_for_kernel.py", line 114, in <module>
    api_opts = get_options()
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\bers\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2023.12.0\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\_vendored\pydevd\pydev_ipython\qt_for_kernel.py", line 102, in get_options
    if mpl is not None and not check_version(mpl.__version__, '1.0.2'):
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\Users\bers\.vscode\extensions\ms-python.python-2023.12.0\pythonFiles\lib\python\debugpy\_vendored\pydevd\pydev_ipython\version.py", line 33, in check_version
    return LooseVersion(v) >= LooseVersion(check)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\bers\.pyenv-win-venv\envs\project_3.11\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\version.py", line 55, in __init__
    warnings.warn(
DeprecationWarning: distutils Version classes are deprecated. Use packaging.version instead.

At least the warning seems to be related to this piece of code, which is still active on main:

PyDev.Debugger/pydev_ipython/version.py

Line 19 in 2686481

from distutils.version import LooseVersion

[gramster]

This will break entirely with 3.12 when distutils is removed.

[fabioz]

Agreed it should be done. It should be reasonably simple to replace that with a standalone class (possibly even copying what's needed from distutils).