[Failing Test]: :sdks:python:test-suites:direct:py38:tensorflowInferenceTest fails in Python 3.8 postcommit suite

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What happened?

> Task :sdks:python:test-suites:direct:py38:tensorflowInferenceTest FAILED
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "/runner/_work/beam/beam/build/gradleenv/1398941892/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py", line 186, in exec_module
    exec(co, module.__dict__)
  File "/runner/_work/beam/beam/build/gradleenv/1398941892/lib/python3.8/site-packages/typeguard/__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
    from ._importhook import ImportHookManager as ImportHookManager
  File "/runner/_work/beam/beam/build/gradleenv/1398941892/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py", line 186, in exec_module
    exec(co, module.__dict__)
  File "/runner/_work/beam/beam/build/gradleenv/1398941892/lib/python3.8/site-packages/typeguard/_importhook.py", line 22, in <module>
    from typing_extensions import Buffer
ImportError: cannot import name 'Buffer' from 'typing_extensions' (/runner/_work/beam/beam/build/gradleenv/1398941892/lib/python3.8/site-packages/typing_extensions.py)

Judging from:

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
Successfully installed Pillow-10.3.0 absl-py-2.1.0 astunparse-1.6.3 flatbuffers-24.3.25 gast-0.4.0 google-auth-oauthlib-1.0.0 google-pasta-0.2.0 h5py-3.11.0 keras-2.13.1 libclang-18.1.1 markdown-3.6 numpy-1.24.3 oauthlib-3.2.2 opt-einsum-3.3.0 requests-oauthlib-2.0.0 tensorboard-2.13.0 tensorboard-data-server-0.7.2 tensorflow-2.13.1 tensorflow-estimator-2.13.0 tensorflow-io-gcs-filesystem-0.34.0 tensorflow_hub-0.16.1 termcolor-2.4.0 tf-keras-2.15.0 typing-extensions-4.5.0 werkzeug-3.0.3 wheel-0.43.0
apache-beam 2.57.0.dev0 requires protobuf!=4.0.*,!=4.21.*,!=4.22.0,!=4.23.*,!=4.24.*,<4.26.0,>=3.20.3, but you have protobuf 4.23.3 which is incompatible.
azure-core 1.30.1 requires typing-extensions>=4.6.0, but you have typing-extensions 4.5.0 which is incompatible.
azure-storage-blob 12.20.0 requires typing-extensions>=4.6.0, but you have typing-extensions 4.5.0 which is incompatible.
fastapi 0.111.0 requires typing-extensions>=4.8.0, but you have typing-extensions 4.5.0 which is incompatible.
pydantic 2.7.1 requires typing-extensions>=4.6.1, but you have typing-extensions 4.5.0 which is incompatible.
pydantic-core 2.18.2 requires typing-extensions!=4.7.0,>=4.6.0, but you have typing-extensions 4.5.0 which is incompatible.
typeguard 4.2.1 requires typing-extensions>=4.10.0; python_version < "3.13", but you have typing-extensions 4.5.0 which is incompatible.

we might need some tweaking to beam/sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/tensorflow_tests_requirements.txt or adding a special 'extra' for TF dependency and using that to install the requirements for the test.

Issue Failure

Failure: Test is continually failing

Issue Priority

Priority: 2 (backlog / disabled test but we think the product is healthy)

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