Codespace and devcontainer fails as distutils is no longer in Python 3.12

[cicorias]

During codespace build and error occurs

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

2024-09-03 14:50:25.214Z: �[?25h2024-09-03 14:50:25.331Z: updateContentCommand failed with exit code 2. Skipping any further user-provided commands.

2024-09-03 14:50:25.333Z: Error: Command failed: /bin/sh -c python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
2024-09-03 14:50:25.334Z: {"outcome":"error","message":"Command failed: /bin/sh -c python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt","description":"The updateContentCommand in the devcontainer.json failed.","containerId":"803038732d9ce917afc83d2b05956bf51951ee79faa4519147dd0610babfa718"}
2024-09-03 14:50:25.334Z:     at b7 (/.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:235:130)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.335Z:     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.335Z:     at async Am (/.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:227:4483)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.335Z:     at async Xw (/.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:227:3828)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.335Z:     at async $w (/.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:227:2904)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.335Z:     at async fa (/.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:227:2438)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.336Z:     at async mtA (/.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:465:1534)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.336Z:     at async NH (/.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:465:964)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.336Z:     at async YtA (/.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:482:3771)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.337Z:     at async eB (/.codespaces/agent/bin/node_modules/@devcontainers/cli/dist/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.js:482:4886)
2024-09-03 14:50:25.339Z: devcontainer process exited with exit code 1

Cause

Reason: the distutils package has been removed from the standard library

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