tensorflow-2.16.1-python-distutils-removal.patch

diff --git a/tensorflow/api_template.__init__.py b/tensorflow/api_template.__init__.py
index a0f88926..9c0bb098 100644
--- a/tensorflow/api_template.__init__.py
+++ b/tensorflow/api_template.__init__.py
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ this file with a file generated from [`api_template.__init__.py`](https://www.gi
 """
 # pylint: disable=g-bad-import-order,protected-access,g-import-not-at-top
 
-import distutils as _distutils
 import importlib
 import inspect as _inspect
 import os as _os
@@ -95,10 +94,10 @@ _site_packages_dirs = []
 if _site.ENABLE_USER_SITE and _site.USER_SITE is not None:
   _site_packages_dirs += [_site.USER_SITE]
 _site_packages_dirs += [p for p in _sys.path if "site-packages" in p]
-if "getsitepackages" in dir(_site):
+try:
   _site_packages_dirs += _site.getsitepackages()
-
-if "sysconfig" in dir(_distutils):
+except AttributeError:
+  import distutils as _distutils
   _site_packages_dirs += [_distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()]
 
 _site_packages_dirs = list(set(_site_packages_dirs))
diff --git a/tensorflow/api_template_v1.__init__.py b/tensorflow/api_template_v1.__init__.py
index 6a4ab4e6..d6f8f2e0 100644
--- a/tensorflow/api_template_v1.__init__.py
+++ b/tensorflow/api_template_v1.__init__.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 # ==============================================================================
 """Bring in all of the public TensorFlow interface into this module."""
 
-import distutils as _distutils
 import importlib
 import inspect as _inspect
 import os as _os
@@ -144,10 +143,10 @@ from tensorflow.python.lib.io import file_io as _fi
 _site_packages_dirs = []
 _site_packages_dirs += [] if _site.USER_SITE is None else [_site.USER_SITE]
 _site_packages_dirs += [p for p in _sys.path if "site-packages" in p]
-if "getsitepackages" in dir(_site):
+try:
   _site_packages_dirs += _site.getsitepackages()
-
-if "sysconfig" in dir(_distutils):
+except AttributeError:
+  import distutils as _distutils
   _site_packages_dirs += [_distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib()]
 
 _site_packages_dirs = list(set(_site_packages_dirs))
diff --git a/tensorflow/lite/python/convert.py b/tensorflow/lite/python/convert.py
index cfaff27a..a4eeb02f 100644
--- a/tensorflow/lite/python/convert.py
+++ b/tensorflow/lite/python/convert.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 # ==============================================================================
 """Converts a frozen graph into a TFLite FlatBuffer."""
 
-import distutils.spawn
 import enum
 import hashlib
 import os as _os
@@ -45,6 +44,10 @@ from tensorflow.python.platform import resource_loader as _resource_loader
 from tensorflow.python.util import deprecation
 from tensorflow.python.util.tf_export import tf_export as _tf_export
 
+try:
+  from shutil import which
+except ImportError:
+  from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
 
 def _is_quantized_input_stats_required(
     conversion_flags: _conversion_flags_pb2.TocoFlags,
@@ -399,7 +402,7 @@ def _run_deprecated_conversion_binary(
     RuntimeError: When conversion fails, an exception is raised with the error
       message embedded.
   """
-  if distutils.spawn.find_executable(_deprecated_conversion_binary) is None:
+  if which(_deprecated_conversion_binary) is None:
     raise ConverterError("""Could not find `toco_from_protos` binary, make sure
 your virtualenv bin directory or pip local bin directory is in your path.
 In particular, if you have installed TensorFlow with --user, make sure you