Error in python_tutorial - No module named 'pkg_resources'

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: jupyter-notebook, python
Domain: machine-learning

Research direction

Start with the Python 3.12 notebook cell shown in the traceback and reproduce the failure when importing hyperopt. Inspect how the tutorial’s dependencies provide the missing pkg_resources module. Done when the tutorial runs past that import without ModuleNotFoundError.

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The error, py 3.12:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[36], line 1
----> 1 import hyperopt
      3 def hyperopt_objective(params):
      4     model = CatBoostClassifier(
      5         l2_leaf_reg=int(params['l2_leaf_reg']),
      6         learning_rate=params['learning_rate'],
   (...)     11         loss_function=metrics.Logloss(),
     12     )

File ~/gitlab/catboost-experiments/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/hyperopt/__init__.py:34
     32 from . import rand
     33 from . import tpe
---> 34 from . import atpe
     35 from . import mix
     36 from . import anneal

File ~/gitlab/catboost-experiments/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/hyperopt/atpe.py:19
     17 import numpy
     18 import numpy.random
---> 19 import pkg_resources
     20 import tempfile
     21 import scipy.stats

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

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