pip install of protobuff causes "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'google'"

[ScottGibb]

What version of protobuf and what language are you using?

• protoc: v28.3
• protobuf: 5.28.3

What operating system (Linux, Windows, ...) and version?

• MacOS Sonoma Version 14.7

What runtime / compiler are you using (e.g., python version or gcc version)

• Using Python 3.12.7

What did you do?
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.13.0 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ python --version
Python 3.12.7

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.13.0 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ python -m venv .venv

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.12.7 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) took 4s 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ source .venv/bin/activate

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.12.7 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ touch main.py

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.12.7 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ pip install protobuf
Collecting protobuf
  Using cached protobuf-5.28.3-cp38-abi3-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl.metadata (592 bytes)
Using cached protobuf-5.28.3-cp38-abi3-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl (414 kB)
Installing collected packages: protobuf
Successfully installed protobuf-5.28.3

[notice] A new release of pip is available: 24.2 -> 24.3.1
[notice] To update, run: pip install --upgrade pip

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.12.7 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) took 2s 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ pip list
Package  Version
-------- -------
pip      24.2
protobuf 5.28.3

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.12.7 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ protoc --proto_path=$SRC_DIR --python_out=$DST_DIR $SRC_DIR/addressbook.proto

Could not make proto path relative: /addressbook.proto: No such file or directory

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.12.7 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ protoc --proto_path=$SRC_DIR --python_out=$DST_DIR $SRC_DIR/addressbook.proto

Could not make proto path relative: /addressbook.proto: No such file or directory

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.12.7 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ protoc --proto_path=$SRC_DIR --python_out=$DST_DIR $SRC_DIR/addressbook.proto

Could not make proto path relative: /addressbook.proto: No such file or directory

Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.12.7 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ protoc --proto_path=./ --python_out=./ addressbook.proto                     


Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python via 🐍 v3.12.7 (.venv) on ☁️  (eu-north-1) 
✦ 󰂄 8% ❯ python main.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/scott.gibb/Documents/Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python/main.py", line 1, in <module>
    import addressbook_pb2
  File "/Users/scott.gibb/Documents/Scotts Code Playground/protobuff test/python/addressbook_pb2.py", line 7, in <module>
    from google.protobuf import descriptor as _descriptor
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'google'

What did you expect to see

I expected to be able to run the tutorial example: https://protobuf.dev/getting-started/pythontutorial/

What did you see instead?

Couldn't run it, kept complaining bout missing google dependency.

Anything else we should know about your project / environment

Fresh environment, inside a venv. Tried multiple times but no luck :(
I found this on stack overflow but its 9 years out of date:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38680593/importerror-no-module-named-google-protobuf