Remove distutils (huggingface#7455)

* strtobool

* replace Command from setuptools.

setup.py

@@ -81,9 +81,8 @@
 import os
 import re
 import sys
-from distutils.core import Command
 
-from setuptools import find_packages, setup
+from setuptools import Command, find_packages, setup
 
 
 # IMPORTANT:
@@ -163,7 +162,7 @@ def deps_list(*pkgs):
 
 class DepsTableUpdateCommand(Command):
     """
-    A custom distutils command that updates the dependency table.
+    A custom command that updates the dependency table.
     usage: python setup.py deps_table_update
     """
 

src/diffusers/utils/testing_utils.py

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 import unittest
 import urllib.parse
 from contextlib import contextmanager
-from distutils.util import strtobool
 from io import BytesIO, StringIO
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Union
@@ -151,7 +150,7 @@ def parse_flag_from_env(key, default=False):
     else:
         # KEY is set, convert it to True or False.
         try:
-            _value = strtobool(value)
+            _value = str_to_bool(value)
         except ValueError:
             # More values are supported, but let's keep the message simple.
             raise ValueError(f"If set, {key} must be yes or no.")
@@ -921,6 +920,22 @@ def backend_supports_training(device: str):
     return BACKEND_SUPPORTS_TRAINING[device]
 
 
+# Taken from the following PR:
+# https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/pull/1964
+def str_to_bool(value) -> int:
+    """
+    Converts a string representation of truth to `True` (1) or `False` (0).
+    True values are `y`, `yes`, `t`, `true`, `on`, and `1`; False value are `n`, `no`, `f`, `false`, `off`, and `0`;
+    """
+    value = value.lower()
+    if value in ("y", "yes", "t", "true", "on", "1"):
+        return 1
+    elif value in ("n", "no", "f", "false", "off", "0"):
+        return 0
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"invalid truth value {value}")
+
+
 # Guard for when Torch is not available
 if is_torch_available():
     # Update device function dict mapping

tests/others/test_utils.py

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@
 
 import os
 import unittest
-from distutils.util import strtobool
 
 import pytest
 
 from diffusers import __version__
 from diffusers.utils import deprecate
+from diffusers.utils.testing_utils import str_to_bool
 
 
 # Used to test the hub
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ def parse_flag_from_env(key, default=False):
     else:
         # KEY is set, convert it to True or False.
         try:
-            _value = strtobool(value)
+            _value = str_to_bool(value)
         except ValueError:
             # More values are supported, but let's keep the message simple.
             raise ValueError(f"If set, {key} must be yes or no.")