fix: no module named 'pkg_resources' requires new importlib to work

pyproject.toml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ package_name = "ydata-profiling"
 
 [project]
 name = "ydata-profiling"
-requires-python = ">=3.7,<3.13"
+requires-python = ">=3.9,<3.13"
 authors = [
     {name = "YData Labs Inc", email = "[email protected]"}
 ]

src/ydata_profiling/profile_report.py

@@ -5,10 +5,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Optional, Union
 
 from ydata_profiling.utils.backend import is_pyspark_installed
-
-with warnings.catch_warnings():
-    warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
-    import pkg_resources
+from importlib.metadata import version
 
 if not is_pyspark_installed():
     from typing import TypeVar
@@ -359,7 +356,7 @@ def to_file(self, output_file: Union[str, Path], silent: bool = True) -> None:
         """
         with warnings.catch_warnings():
             warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
-            pillow_version = pkg_resources.get_distribution("Pillow").version
+            pillow_version = version("Pillow")
         version_tuple = tuple(map(int, pillow_version.split(".")))
         if version_tuple < (9, 5, 0):
             warnings.warn(

src/ydata_profiling/utils/versions.py

@@ -1,11 +1,4 @@
-try:
-    from importlib.metadata import version
-except ImportError:
-    import pkg_resources
-
-    def version(pkg: str) -> str:  # type: ignore
-        return pkg_resources.get_distribution(pkg).version
-
+from importlib.metadata import version
 
 def pandas_version() -> list:
     return list(map(int, version("pandas").split(".")))