Merge pull request #33 from Bennyelg/importlib-files-issue

Fix importib files is only support 3.9 so revert

.github/workflows/pythonpackage.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       max-parallel: 4
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10']  # '3.11-dev'
+        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10']  # '3.11-dev'
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v1

geonamescache/__init__.py

@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 
 
 import json
-
-from importlib import resources
+import os
 
 from . import geonamesdata
 
@@ -95,7 +94,9 @@ def search_cities(self, query, attribute='alternatenames', case_sensitive=True):
                     results.append(record)
         return results
 
-    def _load_data(self, datadict, datafile):
+    @staticmethod
+    def _load_data(datadict, datafile):
         if datadict is None:
-            datadict = json.loads(resources.files(__name__).joinpath('data', datafile).read_text())
-        return datadict
+            with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'data', datafile)) as f:
+                datadict = json.load(f)
+        return datadict

setup.py

@@ -23,11 +23,12 @@
         'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
         'Programming Language :: Python',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
         'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules'
     ],
     test_suite='tests',
     tests_require=['pytest'],
-)
+)