Package metadata for 1.8.0 is missing dateutil

[WillHirsch]

kaggle.cli will not import when installed in a fresh Python 3.11 environment, failing on a missing dependency:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64/bin/kaggle", line 3, in <module>
    from kaggle.cli import main
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64/lib/python3.11/site-packages/kaggle/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from kaggle.api.kaggle_api_extended import KaggleApi
  File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64/lib/python3.11/site-packages/kaggle/api/kaggle_api_extended.py", line 36, in <module>
    from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dateutil'

This occurs in a configuration I have been repeating on GitHub Actions regularly without issue with version 1.7.4.5, but no longer works since version 1.8.0 became available. The job logs indicate installing the package produced no attempt to collect/download/install python-dateutil as it did before.

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
  pip install kaggle
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
  env:
    KAGGLE_USERNAME: ***
    KAGGLE_KEY: ***
    pythonLocation: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64
    PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64/lib/pkgconfig
    Python_ROOT_DIR: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64
    Python2_ROOT_DIR: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64
    Python3_ROOT_DIR: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64/lib
Requirement already satisfied: pip in /opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.14/x64/lib/python3.11/site-packages (25.3)
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Manually installing python-dateutil of course works as a workaround but the package should be configured to take care of this.

[stevemessick]

Thanks for the report! Looks like I forgot to test the installation on a fresh Python install. I'll get an update out soon, perhaps before the existing PR that fixes this is ready.