KeyError: 'VERSION' issue with pip installing catboost on python 3.13.1

I am working on this ml project and I need to install catboost and xgboost using pip. the xgboost got installed successfully but catboost keeps giving the same error:

(venv) D:\ML bootcamp\mlproject>pip install catboost        
Collecting catboost
  Using cached catboost-1.2.7.tar.gz (71.5 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [24 lines of output]
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "D:\ML bootcamp\mlproject\venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 389, in <module>
          main()
          ~~~~^^
        File "D:\ML bootcamp\mlproject\venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 373, in main
          json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
                                   ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "D:\ML bootcamp\mlproject\venv\Lib\site-packages\pip\_vendor\pyproject_hooks\_in_process\_in_process.py", line 143, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
          return hook(config_settings)
        File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-xzdiplgy\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel       
          return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-xzdiplgy\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 304, in _get_build_requires
          self.run_setup()
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
        File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-xzdiplgy\overlay\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 522, in run_setup
          super().run_setup(setup_script=setup_script)      
          ~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        File "<string>", line 733, in <module>
        File "<string>", line 205, in get_catboost_version
      KeyError: 'VERSION'
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

I have tried what I could, but I don't know what else to do to fix this. Please let me know if someone knows the solution to this.

According to the catboost installation docs

CatBoost Python package supports only CPython Python implementation with versions < 3.13. Version 3.13.x support is in progress.

Source: https://catboost.ai/docs/en/concepts/python-installation

There is also an open issue for this on their github repo:

https://github.com/catboost/catboost/issues/2748

A possible solution would be to use a version of python that catboost currently supports. e.g. 3.12.x