Cannot install periodictable 1.7.0

[Andrew-S-Rosen]

I am trying to pip install periodictable==1.7.0 in a clean Python 3.11 Conda environment on a Linux HPC machine but am getting the following error. I do not get this error with 1.6.1

pip install periodictable
Collecting periodictable
  Using cached periodictable-1.7.0.tar.gz (1.0 MB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [1 lines of output]
      ERROR: Can not execute `setup.py` since setuptools is not available in the build environment.
      [end of output]
  
  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed
× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.
note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[Andrew-S-Rosen]

Looks like this is somewhat of a "me" problem but also a periodictable issue that can be resolved. See pypa/packaging-problems#573. By default, the Python environment does not have setuptools yet this is imported in setup.py. If a pyproject.toml were used, this would not be a problem. I am surprised I have not run into this before, however.

[lucas-wilkins]

It's not a ""me" problem" - it doesn't work at all with python 3.12.