pip install textual[syntax] does not work for python3.13 for latest version of textual

[kylepollina]

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When trying to install textual[syntax] using python3.13, pip fails to find a version after textual==0.37.1 to install. Follow these commands using python3.12 we are able to successfully download the latest textual using 'pip install textual[syntax]`

python3.12 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install "textual[syntax]"
pip list | grep textual

The output is

textual               0.85.2

But running the same commands using python3.13...

python3.13 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install "textual[syntax]"
Collecting textual[syntax]
  Downloading textual-0.85.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
Collecting markdown-it-py>=2.1.0 (from markdown-it-py[linkify,plugins]>=2.1.0->textual[syntax])
  Downloading markdown_it_py-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (6.9 kB)
Collecting platformdirs<5,>=3.6.0 (from textual[syntax])
  Downloading platformdirs-4.3.6-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (11 kB)
Collecting rich>=13.3.3 (from textual[syntax])
  Downloading rich-13.9.4-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (18 kB)
Collecting tree-sitter<0.21.0,>=0.20.1 (from textual[syntax])
  Downloading tree_sitter-0.20.4.tar.gz (140 kB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
  Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done
INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of textual[syntax] to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
Collecting textual[syntax]
  Downloading textual-0.85.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.85.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.84.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.83.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.82.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.81.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.80.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
INFO: pip is still looking at multiple versions of textual[syntax] to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
  Downloading textual-0.80.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.79.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.79.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.78.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.77.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
INFO: This is taking longer than usual. You might need to provide the dependency resolver with stricter constraints to reduce runtime. See https://pip.pypa.io/warnings/backtracking for guidance. If you want to abort this run, press Ctrl + C.
  Downloading textual-0.76.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
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  Downloading textual-0.56.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.56.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.56.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
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  Downloading textual-0.48.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
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  Downloading textual-0.46.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.45.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
Collecting importlib-metadata>=4.11.3 (from textual[syntax])
  Downloading importlib_metadata-8.5.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.8 kB)
Collecting textual[syntax]
  Downloading textual-0.45.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.44.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
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  Downloading textual-0.43.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.7 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.43.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.7 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.43.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.7 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.42.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.41.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.40.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.39.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.6 kB)
  Downloading textual-0.38.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.8 kB)
WARNING: textual 0.38.1 does not provide the extra 'syntax'
  Downloading textual-0.38.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.8 kB)
WARNING: textual 0.38.0 does not provide the extra 'syntax'
  Downloading textual-0.37.1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.7 kB)
WARNING: textual 0.37.1 does not provide the extra 'syntax'
Collecting typing-extensions<5.0.0,>=4.4.0 (from textual[syntax])
  Downloading typing_extensions-4.12.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.0 kB)
Collecting zipp>=3.20 (from importlib-metadata>=4.11.3->textual[syntax])
  Downloading zipp-3.20.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.7 kB)
Collecting mdurl~=0.1 (from markdown-it-py>=2.1.0->markdown-it-py[linkify,plugins]>=2.1.0->textual[syntax])
  Downloading mdurl-0.1.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.6 kB)
Collecting linkify-it-py<3,>=1 (from markdown-it-py[linkify,plugins]>=2.1.0->textual[syntax])
  Downloading linkify_it_py-2.0.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.5 kB)
Collecting mdit-py-plugins (from markdown-it-py[linkify,plugins]>=2.1.0->textual[syntax])
  Downloading mdit_py_plugins-0.4.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.8 kB)
Collecting pygments<3.0.0,>=2.13.0 (from rich>=13.3.3->textual[syntax])
  Downloading pygments-2.18.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.5 kB)
Collecting uc-micro-py (from linkify-it-py<3,>=1->markdown-it-py[linkify,plugins]>=2.1.0->textual[syntax])
  Downloading uc_micro_py-1.0.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.0 kB)
Downloading importlib_metadata-8.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (26 kB)
Downloading markdown_it_py-3.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (87 kB)
Downloading rich-13.9.4-py3-none-any.whl (242 kB)
Downloading typing_extensions-4.12.2-py3-none-any.whl (37 kB)
Downloading textual-0.37.1-py3-none-any.whl (433 kB)
Downloading linkify_it_py-2.0.3-py3-none-any.whl (19 kB)
Downloading mdurl-0.1.2-py3-none-any.whl (10.0 kB)
Downloading pygments-2.18.0-py3-none-any.whl (1.2 MB)
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Downloading zipp-3.20.2-py3-none-any.whl (9.2 kB)
Downloading mdit_py_plugins-0.4.2-py3-none-any.whl (55 kB)
Downloading uc_micro_py-1.0.3-py3-none-any.whl (6.2 kB)
Installing collected packages: zipp, uc-micro-py, typing-extensions, pygments, mdurl, markdown-it-py, linkify-it-py, importlib-metadata, rich, mdit-py-plugins, textual
Successfully installed importlib-metadata-8.5.0 linkify-it-py-2.0.3 markdown-it-py-3.0.0 mdit-py-plugins-0.4.2 mdurl-0.1.2 pygments-2.18.0 rich-13.9.4 textual-0.37.1 typing-extensions-4.12.2 uc-micro-py-1.0.3 zipp-3.20.2

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.2 -> 24.3.1

And then running pip list | grep textual we get textual 0.37.1

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[TomJGooding]

I think the problem is that thetree-sitter syntax dependency fails to build with Python 3.13 before tree-sitter v0.23.1.

Textual is using an older version of tree-sitter, as there were significant API changes and also doesn't support Python 3.8. There's a good summary of the difficulties of upgrading here:

• Upgrade Textual's tree-sitter version to 0.22.x #4845

[kylepollina]

Thanks!