cisco spark used instead of newer

[yedownnavi]

going through https://developer.cisco.com/learning/labs/intro-netconf/walking-through-automating-your-network-with-netconf/

it throws error

(venv) ivanher@IVANHER-M-NW04 intro-mdp % pip install -r requirements.txt
Collecting ciscosparkapi==0.9.2 (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
Downloading ciscosparkapi-0.9.2.tar.gz (45 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [33 lines of output]
/private/var/folders/b5/1m25fkvx79d4mtmt4h7dsfmw0000gn/T/pip-install-vgoaugy6/ciscosparkapi_184e64dcebbf49b4a31ed3e7e2f55f1c/versioneer.py:564: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s'
mo = re.search(r'=\s*"(.*)"', line)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/ivanher/Desktop/programming/certifications/auto/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 389, in
main()
~~~~^^
File "/Users/ivanher/Desktop/programming/certifications/auto/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 373, in main
json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/Users/ivanher/Desktop/programming/certifications/auto/venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 143, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return hook(config_settings)
File "/private/var/folders/b5/1m25fkvx79d4mtmt4h7dsfmw0000gn/T/pip-build-env-5_sz0i7o/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 333, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/private/var/folders/b5/1m25fkvx79d4mtmt4h7dsfmw0000gn/T/pip-build-env-5_sz0i7o/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 301, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/private/var/folders/b5/1m25fkvx79d4mtmt4h7dsfmw0000gn/T/pip-build-env-5_sz0i7o/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 520, in run_setup
super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/private/var/folders/b5/1m25fkvx79d4mtmt4h7dsfmw0000gn/T/pip-build-env-5_sz0i7o/overlay/lib/python3.13/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 317, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "", line 28, in
File "/private/var/folders/b5/1m25fkvx79d4mtmt4h7dsfmw0000gn/T/pip-install-vgoaugy6/ciscosparkapi_184e64dcebbf49b4a31ed3e7e2f55f1c/versioneer.py", line 1480, in get_version
return get_versions()["version"]
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/private/var/folders/b5/1m25fkvx79d4mtmt4h7dsfmw0000gn/T/pip-install-vgoaugy6/ciscosparkapi_184e64dcebbf49b4a31ed3e7e2f55f1c/versioneer.py", line 1412, in get_versions
cfg = get_config_from_root(root)
File "/private/var/folders/b5/1m25fkvx79d4mtmt4h7dsfmw0000gn/T/pip-install-vgoaugy6/ciscosparkapi_184e64dcebbf49b4a31ed3e7e2f55f1c/versioneer.py", line 342, in get_config_from_root
parser = configparser.SafeConfigParser()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'configparser' has no attribute 'SafeConfigParser'. Did you mean: 'RawConfigParser'?
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 25.1.1 -> 26.1.2
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.