No module named 'pkg_resources' with setuptools > 79

[sgdecker]

The following code:

import intake
wrf_url = 'https://thredds.rda.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/files/g/d559000/wy2006/200606/catalog.xml'
catalog = intake.open_thredds_merged(wrf_url, path=['wrf3d_d01_2006-06-01_0*'])

will fail with

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

with setuptools version 80.

Downgrading setuptools to version 79 works around the issue.

[martindurant]

I wonder, does intake alone (i.e., v2) cover the functionality without this repo?

[martindurant]

Is not, it should be easy enough to fix - this will be happening in the entrypoints dereferencing.

[sgdecker]

I wonder, does intake alone (i.e., v2) cover the functionality without this repo?

It certainly may, although I have been unsuccessful so far. Here is my current attempt:

import intake
wrf_url = 'https://thredds.rda.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/files/g/d559000/wy2006/200606/catalog.xml'
catalog = intake.readers.THREDDSCatalog(wrf_url)
ds = catalog.auto_pipeline(outtype='dask').read(path=['wrf3d_d01_2006-06-01_0*'])

(where the older code has ds = catalog.to_dask() after the portion included in my original post)

However, I get:

TypeError: THREDDSCatToMergedDataset.run() missing 1 required positional argument: 'path'