Error in textract setup command w/ extract-msg<=0.29.* due to Wheel 0.40.0

[seankfh]

Textract cannot be installed with the current version of Wheel (0.40.0) because pypa/wheel#520 made it so that .* suffix can only be used with == or != operators. I receive the following error:

Collecting textract==1.6.4
  Downloading textract-1.6.4.tar.gz (17 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py): started
  Preparing metadata (setup.py): finished with status 'error'
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error
  
  × python setup.py egg_info did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [3 lines of output]
      error in textract setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers; Expected end or semicolon (after version specifier)
          extract-msg<=0.29.*
                     ~~~~~~^
      [end of output]

I see forks where people have tried to drop the Python 2 dependencies and work around this error. Can we get consensus to move forward with one of these? Has anyone in the community found a solution or alternative library? Locally I can pin to an earlier version of wheel but this is breaking our serverless build where we have less control over the infrastructure.

[seankfh]

@traverseda are you or @deanmalmgren available to consider removing the asterisk and comply with the latest wheel constraints? Please let me know how I can help. Thank you!

[chenrui333]

also relates to Homebrew/homebrew-core#132584 (we have some regression build failure on this)