Error importing eli5.lime due to deprecated 'itemfreq' from 'scipy.stats'

[AndreaMagnanini]

while trying to import package eli5.lime, interpret gives the following error:

ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In [10], line 1
----> 1 import eli5.lime

File c:\Users\magna\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\eli5\lime\__init__.py:2
      1 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
----> 2 from .lime import (
      3     TextExplainer,
      4     _train_local_classifier
      5 )

File c:\Users\magna\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\eli5\lime\lime.py:18
     16 import eli5
     17 from eli5.sklearn.utils import sklearn_version
---> 18 from eli5.lime.samplers import BaseSampler
     19 from eli5.lime.textutils import DEFAULT_TOKEN_PATTERN, CHAR_TOKEN_PATTERN
     20 from eli5.lime.samplers import MaskingTextSamplers

File c:\Users\magna\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\eli5\lime\samplers.py:9
      6 import six
      8 import numpy as np
----> 9 from scipy.stats import itemfreq
     10 from sklearn.base import BaseEstimator, clone
     11 from sklearn.neighbors import KernelDensity

ImportError: cannot import name 'itemfreq' from 'scipy.stats' (c:\Users\magna\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\scipy\stats\__init__.py)