Install issue related to Apple silicon

Did a basic install of the library:

pip install woocommerce

Tried to follow example:

from woocommerce import API
Python 3.9.5 (default, May  4 2021, 03:36:27) 
[Clang 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.29)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from woocommerce import API
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/requests/compat.py", line 11, in <module>
    import chardet
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'chardet'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/woocommerce/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from woocommerce.api import API
  File "/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/woocommerce/api.py", line 12, in <module>
    from requests import request
  File "/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/requests/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
    from .exceptions import RequestsDependencyWarning
  File "/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/requests/exceptions.py", line 9, in <module>
    from .compat import JSONDecodeError as CompatJSONDecodeError
  File "/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/requests/compat.py", line 13, in <module>
    import charset_normalizer as chardet
  File "/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/charset_normalizer/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from .api import from_bytes, from_fp, from_path, is_binary
  File "/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/charset_normalizer/api.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .cd import (
  File "/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/charset_normalizer/cd.py", line 14, in <module>
    from .md import is_suspiciously_successive_range
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/charset_normalizer/md.cpython-39-darwin.so, 0x0002): tried: '/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/charset_normalizer/md.cpython-39-darwin.so' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64')), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/charset_normalizer/md.cpython-39-darwin.so' (no such file), '/Users/user/Library/Python/3.9/lib/python/site-packages/charset_normalizer/md.cpython-39-darwin.so' (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64'))

The issue seems to be with chardet, but the secondary issue was related to architecture: (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64').

Solution

pip install chardet

Manually installing chardet fixed the issue.

Start by reproducing the reported pip install woocommerce and from woocommerce import API failure on Apple silicon with Python 3.9. Check how the package declares its dependencies and verify that a clean install imports successfully without manually installing chardet.