When trying to import distutils the following error is shown:

# python3
Python 3.4.2 (default, May 12 2015, 11:05:00) 
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from distutils import sysconfig
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 19, in <module>
    PREFIX = os.path.normpath(sys.prefix).replace( os.getenv("BUILD_SYS"), os.getenv("HOST_SYS") )
TypeError: Can't convert 'NoneType' object to str implicitly