Change in importlib

[jackaraz]

System Settings

for python version > 3.9

Describe the bug

Importlib will crash. The find_spec function moved from the util module see this link.

To Reproduce

run ma5

Expected behaviour

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Log files

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Additional information

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[sihyunjeon]

Hello Jack,

I was just going through madanalysis installation and was going to report this but I found that you already took note of the same issue.
it works if lines change like below

from importlib import util

...

# Checking that the 'six' package is present
if not util.find_spec("six"):

[jackaraz]

Hi @sihyunjeon, thanks for the comment! I just need to make sure that it will work in multiple versions of Python at the same time. Probably will need to implement some kind of error handling, will see, thanks!

[jackaraz]

Dev Note: pkg_resources has a get_distribution function, which can be used to check existing packages. If a package is not found, it raises the pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound error. This is more efficient than importing packages. I believe pkg_resources is universal for all Python versions (needs to be checked)

[sihyunjeon]

hi @jackaraz Do you plan to re-release v.1.10.12 or should i wait for v1.10.13 to adapt to this change?

[jackaraz]

Hi @sihyunjeon, we will release a new version, but we are all busy atm, so it might take some time along with other planned releases.