Revert "MAINT: setuptools 49.2.0 emits a warning, avoid it"

3 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/numpy/distutils/__init__.py b/numpy/distutils/__init__.py
index 528b76eb5..79974d1c2 100644
--- a/numpy/distutils/__init__.py
+++ b/numpy/distutils/__init__.py
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ LAPACK, and for setting include paths and similar build options, please see
 ``site.cfg.example`` in the root of the NumPy repository or sdist.
 
 """
-# from setuptools v49.2.0, setuptools warns if distutils is imported first,
-# so pre-emptively import setuptools
-import setuptools
+
 # Must import local ccompiler ASAP in order to get
 # customized CCompiler.spawn effective.
 from . import ccompiler
diff --git a/runtests.py b/runtests.py
index 17620478d..beaf668d6 100755
--- a/runtests.py
+++ b/runtests.py
@@ -341,9 +341,6 @@ def build_project(args):
 
     """
 
-    # from setuptools v49.2.0, setuptools warns if distutils is imported first,
-    # so pre-emptively import setuptools
-    import setuptools
     import distutils.sysconfig
 
     root_ok = [os.path.exists(os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, fn))
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 46c24d543..2cd2bda02 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -219,10 +219,6 @@ class concat_license_files():
             f.write(self.bsd_text)
 
 
-# from setuptools v49.2.0, setuptools warns if distutils is imported first,
-# so pre-emptively import setuptools. Eventually we can migrate to using
-# setuptools.command
-import setuptools
 from distutils.command.sdist import sdist
 class sdist_checked(sdist):
     """ check submodules on sdist to prevent incomplete tarballs """