[GH-1931] Move packaging module import to geopandas try-except block (#1932)

Author: oliverbeagley

python/sedona/maps/SedonaMapUtils.py

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 
 from sedona.sql.types import GeometryType
 from sedona.utils.geoarrow import dataframe_to_arrow
-from packaging.version import parse
 
 
 class SedonaMapUtils:
@@ -46,6 +45,9 @@ def __convert_to_gdf_or_pdf__(cls, df, rename=True, geometry_col=None):
             return data_pyarrow.to_pandas()
         try:
             import geopandas as gpd
+
+            # packaging is a dependency of geopandas
+            from packaging.version import parse
         except ImportError:
             msg = "GeoPandas is missing. You can install it manually or via apache-sedona[kepler-map] or apache-sedona[pydeck-map]."
             raise ImportError(msg) from None