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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"missing python_requires: v2.28 introduces breaking change for python 3.9","articleBody":"Hi 👋 \r\n\r\nThis PR introduces a call to `packages_distributions`: https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core/blob/c97b3a004044ebf8b35c2a7ba97409d7795e11b0/google/api_core/_python_version_support.py#L165 \r\n\r\nThis function was introduced in python 3.10 ([docs](https://docs.python.org/3.14/library/importlib.metadata.html#importlib.metadata.packages_distributions)).\r\n\r\nThis is a breaking change for python 3.9 installing google-api-core `v2.28.*`:\r\n\r\n\u003e An error occurred: module 'importlib.metadata' has no attribute 'packages_distributions'\r\n\r\nCan you bump python_requires to \u003e=3.10 and yank all existing `2.28.*` versions from PyPI?\r\n\r\nUntil yanking is complete, I'm adding `\"google-api-core\u003c2.28;python_version\u003c'3.10\"` to our requirements.\r\n\r\nExample CI failure: https://github.com/piskvorky/smart_open/actions/runs/18954411130/job/54127375199\r\n\r\n_Originally posted by @ddelange in https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core/issues/832#issuecomment-3470137771_\r\n\r\n            ","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ddelange","@type":"Person","name":"ddelange"},"datePublished":"2025-11-07T12:13:06.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/860/python-api-core/issues/860"}