diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 from os.path import exists
-try:
-    from setuptools import setup
-except ImportError:
-    from distutils.core import setup
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
-from setuptools import find_packages
 from tz_detect import __version__
 
 setup(
Updating setup.py to use setuptools exclusively (as per recent seed changes)