ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources' with setuptools 82

[matthuisman]

setuptools 82 was released 9th Feb 2026 and has removed pkg_resources
https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/stable/history.html

So importing docxcompose now causes

venv313\Lib\site-packages\docxcompose\composer.py:12: in <module>
    from docxcompose.properties import CustomProperties
venv313\Lib\site-packages\docxcompose\properties.py:18: in <module>
    import pkg_resources
E   ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources'

This affects all python versions that setuptools is released for

For myself and others, I have published a new pypi package called docxcompose3
Which is simply docxcompose with PR #113 and few fixes to packaging

https://pypi.org/project/docxcompose3/

You should be able to simply swap your dependency to this and then work with newer setuptools

Hopefully this can help others :)

[matthuisman]

looks like the maintainer of this repo came back / was replaced and there is a new version 2. which supports latest setuptools! yah
I will be removing my fork above :)