Error building wheel for pandas

[rdkm89]

Current Behavior:

There is a bug when installing dependencies which means that I am unable to install topicwizard in my environment.

When installing via pip, the following output appears and then hangs indefinitely:

Building wheels for collected packages: pandas, jsbeautifier, editorconfig
  Building wheel for pandas (pyproject.toml) ... -

Which suggests that the problem is specifically related to pandas.

Expected Behavior:

topicwizard should install from pip instead of hanging indefinitely.

Steps To Reproduce:

On the environment below, run the following:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install topic-wizard

Environment:

• OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Python 3.12.3

Anything else:

I suspect that the problem here is due to lack of Python 3.12 support for pandas.

This appears to have been a problem recently, as discussed here - I'm unsure about the current status of support for Python 3.12. But if that is the problem, it could be worth indicating for users that 3.12 is currently not supported by topicwizard.

[x-tabdeveloping]

I think you're right. I suspect that the issues arise because older versions of pandas do not support 3.12, while newer versions are not supported by topicwizard, and pip gets into a deadlock. I'm working on it in a PR #38 , as soon as tests pass, I will release a new version.

[x-tabdeveloping]

I also added a test for 3.12 just to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

[x-tabdeveloping]

Since this is fixed, I'm closing the issue