Incompatibility with python 3.12+ pkg_resources / pkgutil.ImpImporter Errors #69
Description
Small description
I'm trying to install and use the tell package on Windows, but I encountered a version compatibility issue with Python 3.12.
When installing the package (or running the code), I get the following error:
"AttributeError: module 'pkgutil' has no attribute 'ImpImporter'. Did you mean: 'zipimporter'?"
This seems to be related to the deprecation and removal of legacy pkgutil.ImpImporter in Python 3.12. Additionally, I encountered issues related to pkg_resources which appears to rely on pkgutil.ImpImporter internally.
Root Cause (as far as I can tell)
pkgutil.ImpImporter was deprecated in Python 3.10 and removed in Python 3.12.
Some parts of the tell package (or one of its dependencies) still reference this, likely through pkg_resources (from setuptools).
As a result, the code fails to run under Python 3.12+.
Workaround
I downgraded to Python 3.9, created a virtual environment manually, and everything works fine there. It seems the package is compatible with Python ≥3.9 and <3.12.