Docker-compose down error

I went to upgrade from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 but got the following after I did the usual “sudo docker-compose down” on my Ubuntu server. Can anyone explain the error and how to fix it please.

Thanks,
Kent

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/docker-compose”, line 33, in
sys.exit(load_entry_point(‘docker-compose==1.29.2’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘docker-compose’)())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/usr/bin/docker-compose”, line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
return next(matches).load()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/init.py”, line 205, in load
module = import_module(match.group(‘module’))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/init.py”, line 90, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File “”, line 1387, in _gcd_import
File “”, line 1360, in _find_and_load
File “”, line 1331, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File “”, line 935, in _load_unlocked
File “”, line 995, in exec_module
File “”, line 488, in _call_with_frames_removed
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/compose/cli/main.py”, line 9, in
from distutils.spawn import find_executable
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘distutils’

All sorted. I had to reinstall python3 and utilities and it sorted itself.