fix(FIR-49285): remove incompatible method call for python 3.12

Author: ptiurin

.github/workflows/code-check.yml

@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ jobs:
       with:
         ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
 
-    - name: Set up Python 3.8
+    - name: Set up Python 3.9
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |

.github/workflows/integration-tests-core.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ on:
         description: 'Python version'
         required: false
         type: string
-        default: '3.8'
+        default: '3.9'
   workflow_call:
     inputs:
       tag_version:
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ on:
         description: 'Python version'
         required: false
         type: string
-        default: '3.8'
+        default: '3.9'
 
 jobs:
   run-core-integration-tests:

.github/workflows/nightly-v1.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
       max-parallel: 2
       matrix:
         os: ['ubuntu-latest', 'macos-13', 'windows-latest']
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
     steps:
       - name: Check out code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2

.github/workflows/nightly-v2.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
       max-parallel: 2
       matrix:
         os: ['ubuntu-latest', 'macos-13', 'windows-latest']
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
     steps:
       - name: Check out code
         uses: actions/checkout@v2

.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml

@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ jobs:
       with:
         ref: ${{ inputs.branch }}
 
-    - name: Set up Python 3.8
+    - name: Set up Python 3.9
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: |

src/firebolt_db/firebolt_dialect.py

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import os
-from distutils.util import strtobool
 from types import ModuleType
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
@@ -83,6 +82,23 @@ def removesuffix(s: str, suffix: str) -> str:
     return result
 
 
+def strtobool(val: str) -> int:
+    """Copy of deprecated distutils.util.strtobool
+    Convert a string representation of truth to true (1) or false (0).
+
+    True values are 'y', 'yes', 't', 'true', 'on', and '1'; false values
+    are 'n', 'no', 'f', 'false', 'off', and '0'.  Raises ValueError if
+    'val' is anything else.
+    """
+    val = val.lower()
+    if val in ("y", "yes", "t", "true", "on", "1"):
+        return 1
+    elif val in ("n", "no", "f", "false", "off", "0"):
+        return 0
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("invalid truth value %r" % (val,))
+
+
 DEFAULT_TYPE = TEXT