added explicit installation of distutils for 3.12 compatibility

Author: jo-mueller

.github/workflows/test_and_deploy.yml

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-          python -m pip install setuptools tox tox-gh-actions
+          python -m pip install setuptools distutils tox tox-gh-actions
 
       # this runs the platform-specific tests declared in tox.ini
       - name: Test with tox