Development environment | brew installed python 3.11.2 | module xattr does not include file _lib.abi3.so

[oPromessa]

For your reference...

• Intel MAC
• python 3.11.2 installed with brew
• installing dev environment for osxphotos with python 3.11.2 I faced an issue with import xattr which I traced back to a missing file _lib.abi3.so on the site-packages/xattr folder -- after comparing with the Python 3.9 installation.
• Copying the file site-packages/xattr/_lib.abi3.so from Python 3.9 to the same folder solves the issue.
• But possible there is more to it...

python3.11 -m pip seems to source version 0.9.9 from a location without such file.

Collecting xattr<0.10.0,>=0.9.9
Using cached xattr-0.9.9-py3-none-any.whl

python3.9 -m pip brings it from a different location, specific to MAC OS and maybe because of that it includes the said file.

Collecting xattr<0.10.0,>=0.9.9
Using cached xattr-0.9.9-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (15 kB)

Error on python 3.11.2

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/osxphotos/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/xattr/lib.py", line 7, in <module>
    from ._lib import lib, ffi
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xattr._lib'

(...)

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/MSP/Documents/GitHub/osxphotos/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/xattr/lib_build.h'

[RhetTbull]

Interesting--xattr definitely needs the Mac wheel so not sure why pip is pulling in the wrong version. Xattr 10.1 is the latest so I'll update the dependency and see if that helps.