Python 3.12 has removed the `distutils` module, so we need to stop relying on
it. Most of the parts we were using had a straightforward replacement in
`setuptools` or elsewhere in the Python standard library. I couldn't find a
good replacement for `distutils.command.clean`, though. We were only using it
to enable `python setup.py clean`, so I just removed that functionality since
directly invoking setup.py is deprecated anyway.
While I was looking at this I realized that our python/release.sh script is
unused, so I also removed that.
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