diff --git a/setuptools/command/__init__.py b/setuptools/command/__init__.py
index eea212b819a..50e6c2f54f3 100644
--- a/setuptools/command/__init__.py
+++ b/setuptools/command/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# mypy: disable_error_code=call-overload
+# pyright: reportCallIssue=false, reportArgumentType=false
+# Can't disable on the exact line because distutils doesn't exists on Python 3.12
+# and type-checkers aren't aware of distutils_hack,
+# causing distutils.command.bdist.bdist.format_commands to be Any.
+
 import sys
 
 from distutils.command.bdist import bdist
@@ -7,7 +13,7 @@
         # format_commands is a dict in vendored distutils
         # It used to be a list in older (stdlib) distutils
         # We support both for backwards compatibility
-        bdist.format_commands['egg'] = ('bdist_egg', "Python .egg file")  # type: ignore[call-overload]
+        bdist.format_commands['egg'] = ('bdist_egg', "Python .egg file")
     except TypeError:
         bdist.format_command['egg'] = ('bdist_egg', "Python .egg file")
         bdist.format_commands.append('egg')