Incompatibility with Python 3.12.1 on Linux

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Desribe the bug

Import works fine when I roll back to Python 3.9.0. Get the following error on 3.12.1. On CentOS.

System info:
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core) NAME="CentOS Linux" VERSION="7 (Core)" ID="centos" ID_LIKE="rhel fedora"

Error:
/home/users/$USER/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/hdbscan/plots.py:448: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\l' axis.set_ylabel('$\lambda$ value') /home/users/$USER/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/hdbscan/robust_single_linkage_.py:154: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\{' """Perform robust single linkage clustering from a vector array Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/groups/$USER/fd_export/extract_body.py", line 4, in <module> from bertopic import BERTopic File "/home/users/$USER/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/bertopic/__init__.py", line 1, in <module> from bertopic._bertopic import BERTopic File "/home/users/$USER/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/bertopic/_bertopic.py", line 59, in <module> import bertopic._save_utils as save_utils File "/home/users/$USER/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/bertopic/_save_utils.py", line 29, in <module> import torch File "/home/users/$USER/.local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/torch/__init__.py", line 562, in <module> for name in dir(_C): ^^ NameError: name '_C' is not defined

Reproduction

from bertopic import BERTopic

BERTopic Version

0.16.2

Reproduce the import from the issue with Python 3.12.1 on CentOS 7 and inspect the traceback through bertopic/_save_utils.py into torch/init.py. Compare the failing environment with Python 3.9.0 and verify that importing BERTopic completes without the reported _C NameError.