AttributeError: module 'distutils.spawn' has no attribute '_nt_quote_args'

[jessesna]

I successfully installed ipybind with pip from git

pip install git+https://github.com/aldanor/ipybind.git
...
Successfully installed ipybind-0.1.0

and am trying to use this in a jupyter notebook where i have a

%load_ext ipybind

in one cell and a

%%pybind11 -v

in another but whatever i'm trying i always get a long traceback with a

C:\prog\Python39\lib\site-packages\ipybind\spawn.py in spawn(cmd, search_path, verbose, dry_run)
     43             return
     44         if log_commands:
---> 45             distutils.log.info(' '.join(distutils.spawn._nt_quote_args(list(cmd))))
     46         try:
     47             p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

AttributeError: module 'distutils.spawn' has no attribute '_nt_quote_args'

at the end from the cell with the %%pybind11. Is this a known issue?

Here are the version infos:

D:\dev>python --version
Python 3.9.1

D:\dev>jupyter --version
jupyter core     : 4.7.1
jupyter-notebook : 6.2.0
qtconsole        : 5.0.2
ipython          : 7.20.0
ipykernel        : 5.4.3
jupyter client   : 6.1.11
jupyter lab      : 3.0.7
nbconvert        : 6.0.7
ipywidgets       : 7.6.3
nbformat         : 5.1.2
traitlets        : 5.0.5

[nick-halden]

Try to upgrade setuptools to the newest version.