numpy distutils depricated

[ElonOlsson]

numpy.distutils deprecated in NumPy 1.23 and removed in Python 3.12

I'm setting up Kamodo for the first time and testing to run
Kamodo/Validation/Notebooks/ModelReaderTesting_SWMFGM.ipynb
per Darrens recommendation.
In cell 2 I got error:

ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[6], [line 2](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=6&line=2)
      [1](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=6&line=1) # confirm MW functions work appropriately with model varnames dictionary
----> [2](vscode-notebook-cell:?execution_count=6&line=2) import kamodo_ccmc.flythrough.model_wrapper as MW
"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy.distutils'"

I'm not sure where in kamodo_ccmc.flythrough.model_wrapper that numpy.distutils is used but if it is used more in Kamodo it might be a bigger issue for Python version >= 3.12 and numpy version >= 1.23

Here are migration advice from their webpage
https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/distutils_status_migration.html#distutils-status-migration

[sandyfreelance]

numpy.distutils.exec_command error still shows in latest build under python3.12. It's in the upstream 'kamodo' package that is listed in requirements.txt, not in kamodo-ccmc. It gets called in Kamodo/kamodo_ccmc/__init__.py as

import kamodo # get installed kamodo
# insert Kamodo class into kamodo namespace
from kamodo.kamodo import Kamodo

Error:

from numpy.distutils.exec_command import exec_command
File "/Users/antunak1/py3/lib/python3.12/site-packages/kamodo/util.py", line 21, in
from numpy.distutils.exec_command import exec_command
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'numpy.distutils'