[BUG]: rU is renamed in python3.11 onwards

[caitlin91]

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What happened?

getting an error "valueerror invalid mode 'rU'"

Expectations?

running extractFormants.py to produce vowel extraction

Steps To Reproduce

python 3.12
Windows 11 Pro

fave installed via "python3 -m pip install fave"
run from Windows command line fave-extract AudioFileName.wav TextGridFileName.TextGrid OutputFileName

riffing off this answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74715990/node-gyp-err-invalid-mode-ru-while-trying-to-load-binding-gyp replacing 'rU' with 'r' in both extractFormants.py and praat.py seems to fix the problem.

[robertlennon50]

Hi @caitlin91 I had the same issue (Windows 11 Home, Python 3.12.3), and your suggested bug fix worked for me too, thanks :) Note: after making this change I then also got the error "AttributeError: module 'fave.extract.plotnik' has no attribute 'plt_ipa'". To fix this I just commented out the line "plotnik.plt_ipa(vm.cd),", which appears twice, on lines 1434 and 1535 of extractFormants.py. To ensure the output file has the correct number of columns, I then also removed the term " 'plt_vclass', " in two locations. This means you won't get the vowel classification in the output, but everything else should now work - perhaps this can be addressed in a future release!