Error importing ExplorerHat

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Hello - I’m trying to get my explorer hat working with my rasberryPi4. I Used the imager to install RaspberryPi OS (32Bit)

I’ve purchased this product if that helps:
Explorer HAT Pro - Prototyping Board for Raspberry Pi Projects – Pimoroni

I’m following the setup instructions here, and have followed all the steps:
Getting Started with Explorer HAT (pimoroni.com)

When I get to the step that says:

At this prompt you can type anything you’d normally put into a Python script. To use Explorer HAT we first need to import it, so type:

>>> import explorerhat

I get the following error message:

AttributeError: ‘AsyncWorker’ object has no attribute ‘isAlive’

I’m not sure how to proceed at this point. Does anyone know what I’ve missed, or how to fix?

Thank you

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I think I’d give the test.py example from here a try.
explorer-hat/examples at master · pimoroni/explorer-hat (github.com)

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I get the same message - I think the test.py is the same test that I was running before. Here is the output from the console:

>>> %Run test.py
Explorer HAT Pro detected...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/Pimoroni/explorerhat/examples/test.py", line 5, in <module>
    import explorerhat
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/explorerhat/__init__.py", line 756, in <module>
    touch._add(one=CapTouchInput(4, 1))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/explorerhat/__init__.py", line 595, in __init__
    _cap1208.on(channel=self.channel, event=event, handler=self._handle_state)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 386, in on
    self.start_watching()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 400, in start_watching
    self.async_poll.start()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/cap1xxx.py", line 208, in start
    if self.isAlive() == False:
AttributeError: 'AsyncWorker' object has no attribute 'isAlive'
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Ok, have a look see here, might help you sort it out.
‘AsyncWorker’ object has no attribute ‘isAlive’ when trying to import explorerhat - Support - Pimoroni Buccaneers

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