Remove distutils fallback and outdated comment

setuptools includes a vendored version of pyparsing (and other
dependencies). They are not install through traditional tools.
Therefore, distutils is not required as fallback to facilitate
setuptools.

https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/blob/v40.6.3/setuptools/_vendor/pyparsing.py

The Python documentation recommends against using distutils:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/distutils.html

> Most Python users will not want to use this module directly, but
> instead use the cross-version tools maintained by the Python Packaging
> Authority. In particular, setuptools is an enhanced alternative to
> distutils that provides ...

Also remove the unused imports.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1cd7263..ec877d8 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ Version 2.3.1 -
   for running tests that do additional validation or processing on the parsed
   results.
 
+- Removed distutils fallback in setup.py. If installing the package fails,
+  please update to the latest version of setuptools.
+
 
 Version 2.3.0 - October, 2018
 -----------------------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5e5c69a..89ad68b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,18 +2,9 @@
 

 """Setup script for the pyparsing module distribution."""

 

-# Setuptools depends on pyparsing (via packaging) as of version 34, so allow

-# installing without it to avoid bootstrap problems.

-try:

-    from setuptools import setup

-except ImportError:

-    from distutils.core import setup

-

-import sys

-import os

-

+from setuptools import setup

 from pyparsing import __version__ as pyparsing_version

-    

+

 modules = ["pyparsing",]

 

 setup(# Distribution meta-data