Progress towards Python 3.12 support

[SergeiOssokine]

Python 3.12 brings some forced deprecation:

• imp module is gone
• numpy.distutils is gone
  Fortunately we only used the former to locate Numeric which at this point we can assume will not be used (long live numpy). For the latter we just needed to get the numpy includes.

Note that pyseobnr upstream is blocked by numba compatibility issues

[SimonMaenaut]

Dear developers,
Is there anything I could help with to get this branch merged for a new release?
Since the issues with numba are resolved, I was able to use this branch.
However a new pipy release with this fix would be great.
Kind regards, Simon

[raffienficiaud]

Hi @SimonMaenaut and @SergeiOssokine , please give me a couple of days and I look into this.

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Unit Test Results

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Results for commit 8c1260a.

♻️ This comment has been updated with latest results.

[raffienficiaud]

@SimonMaenaut I added compilation checks for all supported versions of python and it seems to work ok. Would you please give a try on the current branch?

[raffienficiaud]

LGTM

[SimonMaenaut]

@raffienficiaud Thank you for resolving this so quickly!

Since there is already a new release, I installed it from pipy through pip and everything works for me as expected.

[raffienficiaud]

@SimonMaenaut perfect and thanks for the feedback. All the credit goes to @SergeiOssokine