Fail to install in python >=3.12

[Water-Run]

Using pip install basemap, raise exception ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils.util'
Solved by pip install setuptools, then raise exception AttributeError: module 'pkgutil' has no attribute 'ImpImporter'. Did you mean: 'zipimporter'?
Downgrade to python 3.10 to solve.

[cvanelteren]

Can you checkout #611? If there are some issues I can include it in the PR

[molinav]

Based on this Stack Overflow issue, your problem appears to be the use of an outdated version of pip which contains symbols removed in Python 3.12, so I would expect that this is not a direct problem caused by basemap, but by your pip installation.

I would suggest that you try to upgrade pip and install basemap again. If this still does not work, please feel free to reopen the issue.