Drop support for Python 3.8

marcelm · marcelm · commit 405af1d06419 · 2025-04-03T09:30:10.000+02:00
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "pypy-3.9"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "pypy-3.9"]
         optional-deps: [true]
         with-libs: [true]
         include:
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ Supported compression formats are:
 - xz (``.xz``)
 - Zstandard (``.zst``) (optional)
 
-``xopen`` is compatible with Python versions 3.8 and later.
-
 
 Example usage
 -------------
@@ -184,6 +182,11 @@ To ensure that you get the correct ``zstandard`` version, you can specify the ``
 Changelog
 ---------
 
+development version
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Dropped support for Python 3.8
+
 v2.0.2 (2024-06-12)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 * #161: Fix a bug that was triggered when reading large compressed files with
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3"
 ]
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dynamic = ["version"]
 dependencies = [
     'isal>=1.6.1; platform.machine == "x86_64" or platform.machine == "AMD64" or platform.machine == "aarch64"',
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = black,flake8,mypy,py38,py39,py310,py311,py312,pypy3
+envlist = black,flake8,mypy,py39,py310,py311,py312,pypy3
 isolated_build = True
 
 [testenv]

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ classifiers = [`
`16`	`16`	`"License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",`
`17`	`17`	`"Programming Language :: Python :: 3"`
`18`	`18`	`]`
`19`		`-requires-python = ">=3.8"`
	`19`	`+requires-python = ">=3.9"`
`20`	`20`	`dynamic = ["version"]`
`21`	`21`	`dependencies = [`
`22`	`22`	`'isal>=1.6.1; platform.machine == "x86_64" or platform.machine == "AMD64" or platform.machine == "aarch64"',`