Python 3.12 "no module pkg_resources"

[PmasonFF]

The latest Python release 3.12 no longer has a pkg_resources module by default, and this module is need for the cli via the panoptes client package.
From the Whats new in Python 3.12

Important deprecations, removals or restrictions:
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    [PEP 632](https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/): Remove the distutils package. See [the migration guide](https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/#migration-advice) for advice replacing the APIs it provided. The third-party [Setuptools](https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/deprecated/distutils-legacy.html) package continues to provide distutils, if you still require it in Python 3.12 and beyond.

    [gh-95299](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/95299): Do not pre-install setuptools in virtual environments created with [venv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html#module-venv). This means that distutils, setuptools, pkg_resources, and easy_install will no longer available by default; to access these run pip install setuptools in the [activated](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html#venv-explanation) virtual environment.

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There are various ways of obtaining the module, but running pip install setuptools prior to installing the cli seems to resolve the issue. (And for windows users pip install python-magic-bin as the last step to eliminate the libmagic warning.)

Some other appilcations that used pkg_resources are fixing the issue by including setuptools as a dependency - example: https://github.com/Becksteinlab/GromacsWrapper/pull/271

Pmason

[arw36]

Ugh also dealing with this issue... Yes, uninstalling both then re-installing setuptools then panoptescli seems to work.