No module named 'importlib.metadata' about aleph-alpha-client

[pacman82]

Hello @To3No7 ,

thanks for giving the API a spin. Not sure what exactly is going on here, but at least I do not think that we need the importlib dependency at all. We currently just use it to parse the API version of the service.

Cheers, Markus

[To3No7]

It seems that there is a change in version 3.10 of this library "Changed in version 3.10: importlib.metadata is no longer provisional." https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html and that this functionality is taken over by importlib-metadata https://github.com/python/importlib_metadata , but I do not know how to program your usage of this to cope with various versions of python and these libraries.

Will you update aleph_alpha_client.py so that it no longer depend on this library?

[pacman82]

This is my intention. If my current understanding is correct, we only actually use the version type of this library to parse a version string of the http API in order to inform users that they may want to update the client in case the API has changed in a non backwards compatible manner.

Basically I think the use of this package can be replaced with a split.

[pacman82]

Sorry, I am in error. We use it to set the package version for User Agent header correctly. Still I think we can do without that dependency.

[jneuff]

Hi @To3No7,

we removed our dependency on importlib.metadata. A colleague just tested the latest release 1.4.2 in google colab and it worked. Please let us know, if you run into further problems.