ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

[harupong]

I have a scheduled job on GitHub Actions to setup & run withings-sync twice a day, and it stopped working one week ago.

From the GitHub Actions log, I found out that setuptools was not installed by simply running pip install withings-sync during setup, thus the error “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources’” when running withings-sync.

I added a step to install setuptools in my GitHub Actions yaml file as well during setup, and it worked fine.

Is this the expected behavior? My environment is as follows.

Python: 3.12.7
withings-sync: 4.2.7
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5

[stynoo]

Yes it is, your github actions probably upgraded from an older python version to 3.12.

Python 3.12 has removed pkg_resources from the standard library (moved to setuptools):
https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html

gh-95299: Do not pre-install setuptools in virtual environments created with 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 virtual environment.

[harupong]

@stynoo
Understood. Thanks for the clarification. My bad that I upgraded Python to 3.12 w/o taking a closer look first.

BTW, thank you so much for all the time and effort you and @longstone are putting into this project. I really appreciate it.