Dependencies wont install on Python 3.12+ due to tensorflow version

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Originally opened by @MoralCode on 2026-01-07

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The tensorflor dependency needs updating or something to support Python 3.12+ as we currently have breakage (discovered in augurlabs/augur#3513 because of the unit tests) due to our pinned tensorflow verison likely not supporting these python versions.

Its been long enough since the releases of Python 3.12 and 3.13 (at least), that I would assume there are newer versions available that we could update to - we just need to do it and test it

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Originally posted by @guptapratykshh on 2026-01-08

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Installation fails on Python 3.12 and above because the pinned version of TensorFlow (2.15.0) does not provide pre-built wheels for Python 3.12. Additionally, scikit-image (0.19.1) fails to build because it depends on distutils, which was removed in Python 3.12.

Updated project dependencies to support Python 3.12 and above, has been done locally:

• TensorFlow: Bumped from 2.15.0 to >=2.16.1 to access Python 3.12 compatible wheels.
• Scikit-Image: Bumped from 0.19.1 to >=0.22.0 to fix ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'.
• Protobuf: Removed the <3.22 constraint to allow newer versions needed by the updated TensorFlow.
• Pandas: Relaxed the strict pin (==1.5.3 to >=1.5.3) to resolve dependency conflicts.

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Originally posted by @MoralCode on 2026-01-09

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sounds good. @guptapratykshh can you push your commit to a new branch and make a pull request (the message you included above is a great start to a PR description).

Would love to have the automated tests running on this to see if anything obvous breaks, as well as learn how you have tested it and get some testing from other maintainers. Id be especially curious to see if this allows the unit tests to run on python 3.12.

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Originally posted by @MoralCode on 2026-01-09

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oops, probably should have just hidden that comment that was just referring to the PR that got linked