Fix for PIP Inspector not working when pkg_resources package is not available in newer Python versions #1287
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…vailable in newer Python versions
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src/main/resources/pip-inspector.py
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I discovered a problem with this approach of listing dependencies since the requires() function can return packages which are not necessarily installed: in cases when the dependency is an "extra" or condition such as platform_python_implementation != 'PyPy' is evaluated to False.
I am currently exploring possible ways of filtering out such dependencies.
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Fix for PIP Inspector not working when pkg_resources package is not available in newer Python versions
Description
Starting with Python version 3.12 the PIP inspector fails out of the box with error
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'.This could have been addressed by suggesting to customers to pre-install the missing package; however, this PR instead attempts to rely on newer
importlib.metadatapackage for the following reasons: