setuptools deprecated

[davidwagner]

We currently use setuptools. setuptools seems to be deprecated, or many aspects or deprecated. When running make install, I get the following warnings (trimmed):

datascience/setup.py:3: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: The test command is disabled and references to it are deprecated.
!!
        Please remove any references to `setuptools.command.test` in all supported versions of the affected package.

DevelopDeprecationWarning: develop command is deprecated.
!!
        Please avoid running ``setup.py`` and ``develop``.
        Instead, use standards-based tools like pip or uv.

        By 2025-Oct-31, you need to update your project and remove deprecated calls
        or your builds will no longer be supported.

        See https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/917 for details.

[davidwagner]

Testing with tox now fails as well as a result of this, with this error:

RuntimeError: Support for the test command was removed in Setuptools 72

[utsab345]

Solution

The issues with deprecation warnings and test failures were resolved by making the following changes:

python setup.py develop

with

pip install -e .

and updating all the pyhon test

python setup.py test

with

pytest

Added the following new dependencies to avoid deprecation warnings and ensure all tests pass:

pytest

bokeh>=3.0.0

bokeh_sampledata

After applying these updates, the deprecation warnings were resolved, and all tests passed successfully: