ImportError: cannot import name 'InsetPosition' from 'mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator'

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I discovered that the forthcoming matplotlib==3.10.0 which was released to PyPI 2024-12-14 results in an ImportError in Topoly.

The TopoStats test suite threw the error in a fresh virtual environment that had installed matplotlib==3.10.0

_______________________________________________________ ERROR collecting tests/test_entry_all_in_one.py _______________________________________________________
ImportError while importing test module '/home/neil/work/git/hub/AFM-SPM/TopoStats/tests/test_entry_all_in_one.py'.
Hint: make sure your test modules/packages have valid Python names.
Traceback:
/usr/lib/python3.11/importlib/__init__.py:126: in import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
tests/test_entry_all_in_one.py:8: in <module>
    from topostats import run_modules
topostats/run_modules.py:33: in <module>
    from topostats.processing import (
topostats/processing.py:29: in <module>
    from topostats.tracing.ordered_tracing import ordered_tracing_image
topostats/tracing/ordered_tracing.py:12: in <module>
    from topoly import jones, translate_code
/home/neil/.virtualenvs/tmp-2e7e1dcac8fb344/lib/python3.11/site-packages/topoly/__init__.py:24: in <module>
    from .manipulation import read_file, data2dictionary, data2knotprot, data2matrix,\
/home/neil/.virtualenvs/tmp-2e7e1dcac8fb344/lib/python3.11/site-packages/topoly/manipulation.py:39: in <module>
    from topoly.plotting import Reader, KnotMap
/home/neil/.virtualenvs/tmp-2e7e1dcac8fb344/lib/python3.11/site-packages/topoly/plotting.py:13: in <module>
    from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator import InsetPosition
E   ImportError: cannot import name 'InsetPosition' from 'mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1.inset_locator' (/home/neil/.virtualenvs/tmp-2e7e1dcac8fb344/lib/python3.11/site-packages/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/inset_locator.py)

It looks like inset_axes should be used instead according to the note on the API change

inset_location.InsetPosition has been removed; use inset_axes instead.