[BUG] pygwalker not working in clean Python 3.12 virtual environment

[KerstinKeller]

Describe the bug I have a clean Python 3.12 virtual environment. Installing pygwalker with

pip install pygwalker

and then importing it

import pygwalker as pyg

Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\pygwalker\inspect_data.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pygwalker as pyg
  File "D:\pygwalker\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pygwalker\__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from pygwalker.api.jupyter import walk, render, table
  File "D:\pygwalker\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pygwalker\api\jupyter.py", line 6, in <module>
    from .pygwalker import PygWalker
  File "D:\pygwalker\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pygwalker\api\pygwalker.py", line 34, in <module>
    from pygwalker.services.spec import get_spec_json, fill_new_fields
  File "D:\pygwalker\.venv\Lib\site-packages\pygwalker\services\spec.py", line 3, in <module>
    from distutils.version import StrictVersion
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'

Expected behavior pygwalker is working with Python 3.12

Versions

• pygwalker version: most recent,
• 3.12

Additional context Distutils module was removed in Python 3.12. (and deprecated in 3.10).

[ObservedObserver]

Hi @KerstinKeller, thanks for the feedback and context. I think this issues can be fixed by replacing distutils.StrictVersion with packaging.version, it will be fixed in next release.

[longxiaofei]

Hi @KerstinKeller , I published a pre-release version to fix it.

You can use this version first.

pip install pygwalker==0.4.8a5