Support for Python 3.12

.github/workflows/osx.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [macOS]
-        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.12']
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         brew install llvm@14 tesseract
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install --upgrade setuptools
+        pip install --upgrade distribute         
     - name: Install Mathics3 with full Python dependencies
       run: |
         # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release

.github/workflows/ubuntu.yml

@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.11', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10']
+        python-version: ['3.12', '3.8', '3.9', '3.11']
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install Mathics3 with full dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        # Python 3.12 seems to require this
+        python -m pip install --upgrade setuptools
+        # python -m pip install --upgrade distutils
         # We can comment out after next Mathics-Scanner release
         # python -m pip install -e git+https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-scanner#egg=Mathics-Scanner[full]
         python -m pip install Mathics-Scanner

.github/workflows/windows.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
         os: [windows]
         # "make doctest" on MS Windows fails without showing much of a
         # trace of where things went wrong on Python before 3.11.
-        python-version: ['3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.11', '3.12']
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install OS dependencies
       run: |
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install --upgrade setuptools
+        pip install --upgrade distribute         
         python -m pip install wheel
         # use --force because llvm may already exist, but it also may not exist.
         # so we will be safe here. Another possibility would be check and install