Python 3.7 compatibility

#1

We have installed Python 3.7 on AIX. I have tried many versions Xgboost downloaded from PYPI. But none of them working. Can someone help?

Mi

#2

XGBoost now requires Python 3.8 or newer. Are you able to upgrade Python?

#3

Right now python 3.7 is the highest version on AIX with many AIX native packages available. I am wondering if anyone know some specific old version Xgboost works with python 3.7? I have tried some past versions: for versions >=1.7.0, I got “ERROR: Package ‘xgboost’ requires a different Python: 3.7.12 not in ‘>=3.8’”. For version<1.7.0, I got the following error:
copying xgboost/CMakeLists.txt -> build/lib.aix-7.1-3.7/xgboost
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
File “/tmp/pip-install-4mfse1hj/xgboost/setup.py”, line 317, in
url=‘https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost’)
File “/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/init.py”, line 144, in setup
return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
File “/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.7/distutils/core.py”, line 148, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File “/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 966, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File “/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 985, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File “/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py”, line 299, in run
self.run_command(‘build’)
File “/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.7/distutils/cmd.py”, line 313, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File “/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 985, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File “/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.7/distutils/command/build.py”, line 135, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File “/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.7/distutils/cmd.py”, line 313, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File “/opt/freeware/lib64/python3.7/distutils/dist.py”, line 985, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File “/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/build_py.py”, line 58, in run
self.build_package_data()
File “/opt/freeware/lib/python3.7/site-packages/setuptools/command/build_py.py”, line 132, in build_package_data
srcfile in self.distribution.convert_2to3_doctests):
AttributeError: ‘Distribution’ object has no attribute ‘convert_2to3_doctests’