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cant install alphalens from pip because of outdated configparser method call #406

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(stocks) C:\Users\stanley>pip install alphalens
Collecting alphalens
Using cached alphalens-0.4.0.tar.gz (24.0 MB)
Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [18 lines of output]
C:\Users\stanley\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-kx2jl_pm\alphalens_7eff4e4e7ff74df7bc217277410482f0\versioneer.py:421: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
LONG_VERSION_PY['git'] = '''
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 2, in
File "", line 34, in
File "C:\Users\stanley\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-kx2jl_pm\alphalens_7eff4e4e7ff74df7bc217277410482f0\setup.py", line 35, in
version=versioneer.get_version(),
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\stanley\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-kx2jl_pm\alphalens_7eff4e4e7ff74df7bc217277410482f0\versioneer.py", line 1480, in get_version
return get_versions()["version"]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\stanley\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-kx2jl_pm\alphalens_7eff4e4e7ff74df7bc217277410482f0\versioneer.py", line 1412, in get_versions
cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\stanley\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-kx2jl_pm\alphalens_7eff4e4e7ff74df7bc217277410482f0\versioneer.py", line 342, in get_config_from_root
parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?
[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.

(stocks) C:\Users\stanley>python --version
Python 3.12.2

the SafeConfigParser() method has been merged into ConfigParser() method. you guys should update that versioneer.py its from 7 yrs ago!

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