Error in a subprocess

openUC2 ImSwitch
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Dear benedictdied,

Thank you for this documentation on ImSwitch. I work on an M1Pro Macbook. I have pip version 25.0 installed and python 3.12. I followed your instruction and executed pip install https://github.com/openUC2/ImSwitch/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

and the error:

File “”, line 488, in call_with_frames_removed
File "/private/var/folders/f/kth78s2s77x_jl9lz4vtn2340000gn/T/pip-build-env-cqbs6_19/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/init.py", line 16, in
import setuptools.version
File “/private/var/folders/f_/kth78s2s77x_jl9lz4vtn2340000gn/T/pip-build-env-cqbs6_19/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/version.py”, line 1, in
import pkg_resources
File “/private/var/folders/f_/kth78s2s77x_jl9lz4vtn2340000gn/T/pip-build-env-cqbs6_19/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pkg_resources/init.py”, line 2172, in
register_finder(pkgutil.ImpImporter, find_on_path)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module ‘pkgutil’ has no attribute ‘ImpImporter’. Did you mean: ‘zipimporter’?
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

could you please help me with that?

Thank you really much
Dennis

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Hey Dennis! Thanks for your message. This looks indeed weird. Did you use any kind of python environemnt like anaconda or something like that? Maybe you can have a look here? ImSwitch Installation on Mac and Windows

This worked some weeks ago - but python is always tricky :wink: