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macOS pgcli ImportError after install follow steps from website #1589

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As title,
pgcli was installed via the steps from here

And my OS info:
OS: macOS Tahoe 26.2 (25C56) arm64

brew install pgcli

But when I execute with this:

pgcli --help

It show me that ImportError:

$ pgcli --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/homebrew/bin/pgcli", line 3, in <module>
    from pgcli.main import cli
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/pgcli/4.4.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.14/site-packages/pgcli/main.py", line 37, in <module>
    from prompt_toolkit.completion import DynamicCompleter, ThreadedCompleter
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/pgcli/4.4.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.14/site-packages/prompt_toolkit/__init__.py", line 29, in <module>
    from .shortcuts import PromptSession, choice, print_formatted_text, prompt
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/pgcli/4.4.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.14/site-packages/prompt_toolkit/shortcuts/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from .progress_bar import ProgressBar, ProgressBarCounter
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/pgcli/4.4.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.14/site-packages/prompt_toolkit/shortcuts/progress_bar/__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .base import ProgressBar, ProgressBarCounter
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/pgcli/4.4.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.14/site-packages/prompt_toolkit/shortcuts/progress_bar/base.py", line 57, in <module>
    from .formatters import Formatter, create_default_formatters
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/pgcli/4.4.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.14/site-packages/prompt_toolkit/shortcuts/progress_bar/formatters.py", line 129, in <module>
    class Percentage(Formatter):
    ...<15 lines>...
            return D.exact(6)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/pgcli/4.4.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.14/site-packages/prompt_toolkit/shortcuts/progress_bar/formatters.py", line 134, in Percentage
    template = HTML("<percentage>{percentage:>5}%</percentage>")
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/pgcli/4.4.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.14/site-packages/prompt_toolkit/formatted_text/html.py", line 35, in __init__
    document = minidom.parseString(f"<html-root>{value}</html-root>")
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.14/3.14.4_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/lib/python3.14/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 2010, in parseString
    from xml.dom import expatbuilder
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.14/3.14.4_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/lib/python3.14/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 32, in <module>
    from xml.parsers import expat
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.14/3.14.4_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/lib/python3.14/xml/parsers/expat.py", line 4, in <module>
    from pyexpat import *
ImportError: dlopen(/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.14/3.14.4_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/lib/python3.14/lib-dynload/pyexpat.cpython-314-darwin.so, 0x0002): Symbol not found: _XML_SetAllocTrackerActivationThreshold
  Referenced from: <44AFDBDF-C9C3-35EF-A723-C0C54E2C9C3F> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.14/3.14.4_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/lib/python3.14/lib-dynload/pyexpat.cpython-314-darwin.so
  Expected in:     <4D62FA9D-D86A-3DD0-98F2-C6D0718849E8> /usr/lib/libexpat.1.dylib

And also, I've tried to remove pgcli, then install postgresql, then install pgcli.
But again, the same ImportError.
And any tips or guides, could I try to fix this issue?! :)
Thanks a lot!

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