If you can downgrade to Python 3.11 then you will probably not face any issue.
If you must use only Python 3.12, then here is an attempt to solve the issue:
AttributeError: module ‘pkgutil’ has no attribute ‘ImpImporter’. Did you mean: ‘zipimporter’?
occurs due to using Python 3.12.
Due to the removal of the long-deprecated pkgutil.ImpImporter class, the pip command may not work for Python 3.12.
Here is the link to a post which describes it: https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/10/fix-broken-pip-python-312-ubuntu/
You just have to manually install pip for Python 3.12
There are a couple of methods to fix this. In your virtual environment:
pip install --upgrade setuptools
Task 1:
Python comes with an ensurepip, which can install pip in a Python environment.
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installation/
On Linux/macOS terminal:
python -m ensurepip --upgrade
On Windows:
py -m ensurepip --upgrade
Task 2:
You need to install the virtualenv package via:
python -m pip install --user virtualenv
If it is already present then:
pip install --upgrade virtualenv
Then create a new virtual environment by:
virtualenv your_virtual_environment --python=python3.12
Activate your_virtual_environment and you will be ready to install packages.
Other points to note:
virtualenv likes to cache packages to save on loading up environments, including caching old versions of pip
You may have an old cached version of pip in your computer.
You may need to run:
virtualenv --upgrade-embed-wheels
and
virtualenv --reset-app-data <path_to_your_venv>
Better upgrade setuptools as well:
python3.12 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools
https://pythontest.com/posts/2023/2023-10-02-py312-impimporter/
Quote from: https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/pull/10844
Having an outdated version of pip is still the main problem, but the outdated version of pip didn’t come from the python installation, but from the virtualenv creation.
When creating the environment, virtualenv installs some specfic/outdated [sic] versions of pip/setuptools/wheels.
virtualenv
Related gits:
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/11501
https://github.com/xlwings/xlwings/issues/2342
https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/12179
https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/issues/10832
https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/3935
https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-python/issues/1824