commit 40969c2e254c39d00243bb1b55145dc779c42316
Author: Dan Radez <dradez@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 4 09:39:44 2023 -0400

    GitHub Issue #1973: RFE: Replace use of pkg_resources with importlib.metadata
    
    Replaces references to pkg_resources with importlib.metadata
    Latest setuptools reports: DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API

diff --git a/cherrypy/__init__.py b/cherrypy/__init__.py
index 8e27c812..50e715a9 100644
--- a/cherrypy/__init__.py
+++ b/cherrypy/__init__.py
@@ -57,9 +57,14 @@ These API's are described in the `CherryPy specification
 """
 
 try:
-    import pkg_resources
+    import importlib.metadata as importlib_metadata
 except ImportError:
-    pass
+    # fall back for python <= 3.7
+    # can simply pass when py 3.6/3.7 no longer supported
+    try:
+        import importlib_metadata
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
 
 from threading import local as _local
 
@@ -109,7 +114,7 @@ tree = _cptree.Tree()
 
 
 try:
-    __version__ = pkg_resources.require('cherrypy')[0].version
+    __version__ = importlib_metadata.version('cherrypy')
 except Exception:
     __version__ = 'unknown'
 
diff --git a/cherrypy/test/helper.py b/cherrypy/test/helper.py
index cae49533..9b7cb274 100644
--- a/cherrypy/test/helper.py
+++ b/cherrypy/test/helper.py
@@ -461,11 +461,10 @@ server.ssl_private_key: r'%s'
         ```
         ['-c',
          "__requires__ = 'CherryPy'; \
-         import pkg_resources, re, sys; \
+         import importlib.metadata, re, sys; \
          sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0]); \
          sys.exit(\
-            pkg_resources.load_entry_point(\
-                'CherryPy', 'console_scripts', 'cherryd')())"]
+            importlib.metadata.distribution('cherrypy').entry_points[0])"]
         ```
 
         doesn't work as it's impossible to reconstruct the `-c`'s contents.
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index a45e632d..4a0ceb54 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -13,9 +13,7 @@
 # All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
 # serve to show the default.
 
-from email import message_from_string
 import importlib
-import pkg_resources
 import sys
 
 assert sys.version_info > (3, 5), 'Python 3 required to build docs'
@@ -43,9 +41,7 @@ def get_supported_pythons(classifiers):
 
 custom_sphinx_theme = try_import('alabaster')
 
-prj_dist = pkg_resources.get_distribution('cherrypy')
-prj_pkg_info = prj_dist.get_metadata(prj_dist.PKG_INFO)
-prj_meta = message_from_string(prj_pkg_info)
+prj_meta = importlib.metadata.metadata('cherrypy')
 prj_author = prj_meta['Author']
 prj_license = prj_meta['License']
 prj_description = prj_meta['Description']
@@ -54,7 +50,7 @@ prj_py_min_supported, prj_py_max_supported = map(
     lambda v: '.'.join(map(str, v)), prj_py_ver_range
 )
 
-project = prj_dist.project_name
+project = prj_meta['Name']
 
 github_url = 'https://github.com'
 github_repo_org = project.lower()