Python 3.12 seems to break websockify

[LeBirlante]

Hi there,

upgrading to python 3.12 on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W seems to have broken websockify:

_websockify[446]: Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 397, in from_name
    return next(cls.discover(name=name))
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 StopIteration
 During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/websockify", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('websockify==0.11.0', 'console_scripts', 'websockify')(>
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/bin/websockify", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
     for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 862, in distribution
     return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   File "/usr/lib/python3.12/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 399, in from_name
     raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
 importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for websockify_

I tried to revert to 3.11, but that proved to be problematic, since several other applications have already been upgraded in order to work with python3.12, and they were complaining about not being able to link to python3.12.so when I reverted to 3.11

thanks and keep up the good work,

[CendioOssman]

I'm afraid I'm not seeing any issues using Python 3.12 here. What distribution is this? What version of websockify? And how is it deployed?

[LeBirlante]

Sorry, you're absolutely right, there's no problem with 3.12: I was cloning the git and using makepkg on an Arch Linux distro, so the only thing that was needed - if you installed a new python version - was to re-makepkg the websockify package, which in turn runs pysetup and then websockify becomes aware of the new python libraries.

What you can't do, it seems, is upgrading python without re-makepkg'ing websockify. That's what broke it.

thanks for your time and help!

[LeBirlante]

Solved: after installing a new python version, I needed to re-install the websockify package.