Getting requirements to build wheel ... error

[datadizzy]

Describe the bug
error when installing

Expected behavior
installing the program
Screenshots
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 353, in
main()
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 335, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return hook(config_settings)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hz122s8l\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 355, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=['wheel'])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hz122s8l\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 325, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hz122s8l\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 507, in run_setup
super(_BuildMetaLegacyBackend, self).run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-hz122s8l\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 341, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 13, in
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\wordcloud_a2b0ea437707470fb309527d01325bc0\versioneer.py", line 1480, in get_version
return get_versions()["version"]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\wordcloud_a2b0ea437707470fb309527d01325bc0\versioneer.py", line 1412, in get_versions
cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "{MYFILEDIRECTORY}\wordcloud_a2b0ea437707470fb309527d01325bc0\versioneer.py", line 342, in get_config_from_root
parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

OS
Windows

Additional context
This is my very first time submitting an issue - please let me know if i missed something.

[crosskayla]

Hi there - you're probably on Python 3.12 (as was I).

Cause

I checked out the versioneer package and it says:

Compatible with: Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and pypy3
Experimental support for Python 3.12.

If you're running Python 3.12, installing convoviz apparently will throw an error.

Solution

I got it to build with the following steps:

1. Selected a supported version of the Python interpreter as IDE interpreter (e.g., version = 3.11)
2. Created virtual environment to contain this version and its packages (best practice anyway) in my project directory:

python -m venv YOUR_VIRTUAL_ENV_NAME
source YOUR_VIRTUAL_ENV_NAME/bin/activate

The terminal should display:

(YOUR_VIRTUAL_ENV_NAME) ➜  directory 

3. Ran pip install convoviz again

It should then build fine.

Potential fixes

The direct source in this project seems to be the wordcloud package, which uses versioneer.