fix: remove deprecated distutils api calls in workflows

Also remove from tests.

Closes #4534

.pylintrc

@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ ignore-mixin-members=yes
 # (useful for modules/projects where namespaces are manipulated during runtime
 # and thus existing member attributes cannot be deduced by static analysis. It
 # supports qualified module names, as well as Unix pattern matching.
-ignored-modules=distutils
+ignored-modules=
 
 # List of class names for which member attributes should not be checked (useful
 # for classes with dynamically set attributes). This supports the use of

src/sagemaker/workflow/_repack_model.py

@@ -27,13 +27,6 @@
 # is unpacked for inference, the custom entry point will be used.
 # Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/amazon-sagemaker-toolkits.html
 
-# distutils.dir_util.copy_tree works way better than the half-baked
-# shutil.copytree which bombs on previously existing target dirs...
-# alas ... https://bugs.python.org/issue10948
-# we'll go ahead and use the copy_tree function anyways because this
-# repacking is some short-lived hackery, right??
-from distutils.dir_util import copy_tree
-
 from os.path import abspath, realpath, dirname, normpath, join as joinpath
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -188,7 +181,7 @@ def repack(inference_script, model_archive, dependencies=None, source_dir=None):
 
         # copy the "src" dir, which includes the previous training job's model and the
         # custom inference script, to the output of this training job
-        copy_tree(src_dir, "/opt/ml/model")
+        shutil.copytree(src_dir, "/opt/ml/model", dirs_exist_ok=True)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":  # pragma: no cover

tests/data/_repack_model.py

@@ -26,13 +26,6 @@
 # is unpacked for inference, the custom entry point will be used.
 # Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/amazon-sagemaker-toolkits.html
 
-# distutils.dir_util.copy_tree works way better than the half-baked
-# shutil.copytree which bombs on previously existing target dirs...
-# alas ... https://bugs.python.org/issue10948
-# we'll go ahead and use the copy_tree function anyways because this
-# repacking is some short-lived hackery, right??
-from distutils.dir_util import copy_tree
-
 
 def repack(inference_script, model_archive, dependencies=None, source_dir=None):  # pragma: no cover
     """Repack custom dependencies and code into an existing model TAR archive
@@ -92,7 +85,7 @@ def repack(inference_script, model_archive, dependencies=None, source_dir=None):
 
         # copy the "src" dir, which includes the previous training job's model and the
         # custom inference script, to the output of this training job
-        copy_tree(src_dir, "/opt/ml/model")
+        shutil.copytree(src_dir, "/opt/ml/model", dirs_exist_ok=True)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":  # pragma: no cover

tests/unit/test_chainer.py

@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 import logging
 import json
 import os
-from distutils.util import strtobool
 
 import pytest
 from mock import MagicMock, Mock, ANY
@@ -173,7 +172,7 @@ def test_additional_hyperparameters(sagemaker_session, chainer_version, chainer_
         framework_version=chainer_version,
         py_version=chainer_py_version,
     )
-    assert bool(strtobool(chainer.hyperparameters()["sagemaker_use_mpi"]))
+    assert chainer.hyperparameters()["sagemaker_use_mpi"] in ('y', 'yes', 't', 'true', 'on', '1')
     assert int(chainer.hyperparameters()["sagemaker_num_processes"]) == 4
     assert int(chainer.hyperparameters()["sagemaker_process_slots_per_host"]) == 10
     assert (