Python distutils deprecated starting python3.12 and higher

[jaschuet]

Hello,

did an update of my debian box and want to run pyess again to collect all the ESS data. Unfortunately pyess is using python-distutils which is deprecated since python3.12. This causing the service to crash directly after start.

Replace in pyess/essmqtt.py

from distutils.util import strtobool

with

from argparse import ArgumentTypeError

def strtobool(val):
    val = val.lower()
    if val in ("y", "yes", "t", "true", "on", "1"):
        return True
    if val in ("n", "no", "f", "false", "off", "0"):
        return False
    raise ArgumentTypeError("Boolean value  #expected.")

At least this is working for me and is compatible