SyntaxError encountered upon import

[isaacWpark]

What happened?

after installing the most recent version of xwrf using pip, it failed to import.

Minimal Complete Verifiable Example

import xwrf

Relevant log output

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\isaac\anaconda3\envs\pydaymet\lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.py", line 3457, in run_code
    exec(code_obj, self.user_global_ns, self.user_ns)

  File "C:\Users\isaac\AppData\Local\Temp/ipykernel_31480/3638888779.py", line 1, in <module>
    import xwrf

  File "C:\Users\isaac\anaconda3\envs\pydaymet\lib\site-packages\xwrf\__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .accessors import WRFDataArrayAccessor, WRFDatasetAccessor

  File "C:\Users\isaac\anaconda3\envs\pydaymet\lib\site-packages\xwrf\accessors.py", line 177
    if this_staggered_dims := set(var_data.dims).intersection(staggered_dims):
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Environment

unable to import

Anything else we need to know?

No response

[jthielen]

Is there a chance that you are using a version of Python older than 3.8? The := operator was added in Python 3.8, which is the minimum version supported by xwrf (and much of the present Scientific Python stack).

[lpilz]

Closing this issue due to inactivity and the probable cause being a wontfix.