From d261d1e4672b63db851fa0b6a735b1c96044b31d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: virinci <104734512+virinci@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 09:42:18 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils' (#2723)

---
 CONTRIBUTORS  | 1 +
 qt/aqt/mpv.py | 6 ++----
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 82648d859..34d815bb8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ Sam Waechter <github.com/swektr>
 Michael Eliachevitch <m.eliachevitch@posteo.de>
 Carlo Quick <https://github.com/CarloQuick>
 Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
+Virinci
 
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diff --git a/qt/aqt/mpv.py b/qt/aqt/mpv.py
index cae1201f9..9a246a961 100644
--- a/qt/aqt/mpv.py
+++ b/qt/aqt/mpv.py
@@ -36,10 +36,8 @@ import sys
 import tempfile
 import threading
 import time
-from distutils.spawn import (  # pylint: disable=import-error,no-name-in-module
-    find_executable,
-)
 from queue import Empty, Full, Queue
+from shutil import which
 from typing import Optional
 
 from anki.utils import is_win
@@ -78,7 +76,7 @@ class MPVBase:
     based JSON IPC.
     """
 
-    executable = find_executable("mpv")
+    executable = which("mpv")
     popenEnv: Optional[dict[str, str]] = None
 
     default_argv = [