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5 years ago Original comment by Chris Billington (Bitbucket: cbillington, GitHub: chrisjbillington).
Kind of a chicken and egg since importlib_metadata is used by the check_version functionality! But I can probably move some imports into the functions that use them so that importlib_metadata is imported lazily, then the graphical excepthook will be set up before the error occurs, and have the exception say what the required version is.
Also will add it to the installer's requirements. Even in Python 3 it's not a stdlib module - it only will be in 3.8. 3.8 comes out soon so I'll have to special case it in the dependency checking so that it is not listed as an external requirement if you're on 3.8.
Original report (archived issue) by Shaun Johnstone (Bitbucket: shjohnst, GitHub: shjohnst).
importlib_metadatais now required when using Python 2.7, so it should be added to the installer dependency list. Also, when updating from an older combination of BLACS and labscript_utils, the error when this module is missing is silent when not running from a terminal - BLACS will simply fail to open. Is it possible to catch this? Obviously the main solution is to encourage everyone to move to Python 3!