Python: PineconeMemoryStore fails to initialize with a pinecone client error

Describe the bug The PineconeMemoryStore connector fails to initialize with a pinecone client error

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Attempt to register the PineconeMemoryStore by calling kernel.register_memory_store
2. Results in error: "AttributeError: init is no longer a top-level attribute of the pinecone package."

Expected behavior The PineconeMemoryStore is registered and available.

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Platform

• OS: Ubuntu, Windows
• VS Code
• Language: Python
• Source: Semantic Kernel python package=0.5.0dev0

Additional context The issue is semantic-kernel/python/semantic_kernel/connectors/memory/pinecone/pinecone_memory_store.py, line 60 pinecone.init(api_key=self._pinecone_api_key, environment=self._pinecone_environment)

Replace the call to pinecone.init with:

    pc = Pinecone( 

        api_key=self._pinecone_api_key

    ) 

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