pkg-resources-backport 1.0.1


pip install pkg-resources-backport

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Released: Feb 20, 2026

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Author: Python Packaging Authority
Maintainer: Autumn Jolitz
Requires Python: >=3.9

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Development Status
  • 5 - Production/Stable

Intended Audience
  • Developers

Programming Language
  • Python :: 3
  • Python :: 3 :: Only

Topic
  • Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
  • System :: Archiving :: Packaging
  • System :: Systems Administration
  • Utilities

For when your runtime dependencies absolutely require pkg-resources but you’re unable to downgrade to setuptools 80.10.x.

(cpython312) autumn@JudgmentOfCarrion{arm64}:~/software# python -m pip install -U setuptools
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in /Users/autumn/.virtualenvs/cpython312/lib/python3.12/site-packages (80.9.0)
... /snip
Successfully installed setuptools-82.0.0
(cpython312) autumn@JudgmentOfCarrion{arm64}:~/software# python
Python 3.12.12 (main, Oct  9 2025, 11:07:00) [Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.4.4.1)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pkg_resources
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'
>>> ^D
(cpython312) autumn@JudgmentOfCarrion{arm64}:~/software# cd pkg-resources-backport
(cpython312) autumn@JudgmentOfCarrion{arm64}:~/software/pkg-resources-backport# python -m pip install -e .
Obtaining file:///Users/autumn/software/pkg-resources-backport
... /snip
Successfully built pkg-resources-backport
Installing collected packages: pkg-resources-backport
Successfully installed pkg-resources-backport-1.0.0
(cpython312) autumn@JudgmentOfCarrion{arm64}:~/software/pkg-resources-backport# cd ..
(cpython312) autumn@JudgmentOfCarrion{arm64}:~/software# python
Python 3.12.12 (main, Oct  9 2025, 11:07:00) [Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.4.4.1)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pkg_resources
>>> ^D
(cpython312) autumn@JudgmentOfCarrion{arm64}:~/software#