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