diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5b39ec01ed..e4fc0e95c4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 import io
 import os
 import sys
+from distutils.util import convert_path
 from fnmatch import fnmatchcase
 
-from setuptools import convert_path, find_packages, setup
+from setuptools import find_packages, setup
 
 
 # Provided as an attribute, so you can append to these instead