Thank you so much for opening an issue with sparse to get this resolved, @genedan! At first, I was convinced it was some weird Python version mismatch but turns out pinning sparse to 0.15.5 does the ...

Since Python 3.12 has removed the imp module, a possible solution is to either use Python 3.11 or replace the imp module calls with importlib. With this link, the imp.load_source() should be replaced ...