Ansible errors with "Missing required library \"pan-os-python\"." when paloaltonetworks.panos is used under Python 3.12

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Describe the bug

Ansible errors with "Missing required library "pan-os-python"." when paloaltonetworks.panos is used under Python 3.12 even when pan-os-python, pan-python, and xmltodict are installed

Expected behavior

Ansible tasks should run without errors

Current behavior

Ansible errors with "Missing required library "pan-os-python"."

Possible solution

This is happening because distutils was removed from Python 3.12
This is a work around for end users, not a good solution.
pip install setuptools

I suspect that the correct solution will be using a different packaging formula.

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up the environment
   `python -m venv ansible_test

   . ansible_test/bin/activate
   pip install ansible
   pip install pan-os-python pan-python xmltodict

   ansible-galaxy collection install paloaltonetworks.panos'

2. create the playbook
   `---

• name: Gather system info
  hosts: "firewall"
  connection: local

  vars:
  device:
  ip_address: "{{ ip_address }}"
  username: "{{ username }}"
  password: "{{ password }}"

  collections:

  • paloaltonetworks.panos

  tasks:

  • name: Gather facts for device
    paloaltonetworks.panos.panos_facts:
    provider: "{{ device }}"

  • name: Display information
    ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg:
    - "Hostname: {{ ansible_facts['net_hostname'] }}"
    - "Serial: {{ ansible_facts['net_serial'] }}"
    - "Model: {{ ansible_facts['net_model'] }}"
    - "Version: {{ ansible_facts['net_version'] }}"
    - "Uptime: {{ ansible_facts['net_uptime'] }}"
    - "HA Enabled: {{ ansible_facts['net_ha_enabled'] }}"
    - "HA Type: {{ ansible_facts['net_ha_localmode'] }}"
    - "HA Status: {{ ansible_facts['net_ha_localstate'] }}"
    - "Multi-VSYS: {{ ansible_facts['net_multivsys'] }}"
    - "{{ ansible_facts['net_session_usage'] }} out of {{ ansible_facts['net_session_max'] }} sessions in use"
    `

4. Execute!
   ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini get-system-info.yml

Context

I am trying to manage my PanOS device with Ansible using Python 3.12

Your Environment

• Collection: paloaltonetworks.panos
• Python: Python 3.12.1
• Ansible: ansible [core 2.17.4]
• PAN-OS Python Library & version: pan-os-python==1.12.1 pan-python==0.17.0

Workaround for end users

pip install setuptools