I'm trying to run pywikibot with python3.6 under Linux Mint; but I get this error, botg using Idle 3.6 or console:

Python 3.6.8 (default, Jan 14 2019, 11:02:34)
[GCC 8.0.1 20180414 (experimental) [trunk revision 259383]] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>>
============ RESTART: /home/utente/bot/core_stable/BrolloBot3.py ============
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/utente/bot/core_stable/BrolloBot3.py", line 3, in <module>
    import pywikibot
  File "/home/utente/bot/core_stable/pywikibot/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from pywikibot.bot import (
  File "/home/utente/bot/core_stable/pywikibot/bot.py", line 101, in <module>
    from pywikibot import version
  File "/home/utente/bot/core_stable/pywikibot/version.py", line 23, in <module>
    from distutils import log
ImportError: cannot import name 'log'
>>> 

Under python2.7 there's no error; the script only calls "import pywikibot".

How am I going wrong? :-(
Thanks

Alex brollo

Alex