fix: remove call to importlib.metadata.packages_distributions() for py38/py39 (#859)

* fix: remove call to importlib.metadata.packages_distributions() for py38/py39
* cover
* update comment

Author: parthea

google/api_core/_python_version_support.py

@@ -151,9 +151,11 @@ def _flatten_message(text: str) -> str:
 return" ".join(textwrap.dedent(text).strip().split())
 
 
-# TODO(https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core/issues/835): Remove once we
-# no longer support Python 3.7
-ifsys.version_info< (3, 8):
+# TODO(https://github.com/googleapis/python-api-core/issues/835):
+# Remove once we no longer support Python 3.9.
+# `importlib.metadata.packages_distributions()` is only supported in Python 3.10 and newer
+# https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.metadata.html#importlib.metadata.packages_distributions
+ifsys.version_info< (3, 10):
 
 def_get_pypi_package_name(module_name): # pragma: NO COVER
 """Determine the PyPI package name for a given module name."""
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ def _get_pypi_package_name(module_name):
 ifmodule_nameinmodule_to_distributions: # pragma: NO COVER
 # The value is a list of distribution names, take the first one
 returnmodule_to_distributions[module_name][0]
-exceptExceptionase:
+exceptExceptionase:# pragma: NO COVER
 _LOGGER.info(
 "An error occurred while determining PyPI package name for %s: %s",
 module_name,