Drop dependency on disutils (#1544)
Drop dependency on disutils (#1544)

* Drop dependency on distutils

While distutils is part of stdlib, it feels odd to use distutils in main application code.

I personally use a (lean)[https://hub.docker.com/r/haizaar/python-minimal/tags] Python distribution for running my applications that does not include distutils.

* Flake8 fixes

* "black" fixes

* strtobool should actually return bool

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