Merge pull request #2267 from sherlock-project/2266-deprecate-support-for-python-38

Deprecate Python 3.8

.github/workflows/regression.yml

@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ jobs:
           macos-latest,
         ]
         python-version: [
-          '3.8',
           '3.9',
           '3.10',
           '3.11',

pyproject.toml

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ repository = "https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock"
 "Bug Tracker" = "https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues"
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.8"
+python = "^3.9"
 certifi = ">=2019.6.16"
 colorama = "^0.4.1"
 PySocks = "^1.7.0"
@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@ requests = "^2.22.0"
 requests-futures = "^1.0.0"
 stem = "^1.8.0"
 torrequest = "^0.1.0"
-# pandas can likely be bumped up to ^2.0.0 after fc39 EOL
-pandas = ">=1.0.0,<3.0.0"
+pandas = "^2.2.1"
 openpyxl = "^3.0.10"
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]

sherlock_project/__main__.py

@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     # Check if the user is using the correct version of Python
     python_version = sys.version.split()[0]
 
-    if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
-        print(f"Sherlock requires Python 3.8+\nYou are using Python {python_version}, which is not supported by Sherlock.")
+    if sys.version_info < (3, 9):
+        print(f"Sherlock requires Python 3.9+\nYou are using Python {python_version}, which is not supported by Sherlock.")
         sys.exit(1)
 
     from sherlock_project import sherlock

tests/sherlock_interactives.py

@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ class Interactives:
             raise InteractivesSubprocessError(e.output.decode())
 
 
-    # -> list[str] is prefered, but will require deprecation of support for Python 3.8
-    def walk_sherlock_for_files_with(pattern: str) -> list:
+    def walk_sherlock_for_files_with(pattern: str) -> list[str]:
         """Check all files within the Sherlock package for matching patterns"""
         pattern:re.Pattern = re.compile(pattern)
         matching_files:list[str] = []

tox.ini

@@ -41,4 +41,3 @@ python =
     3.11: py311
     3.10: py310
     3.9: py39
-    3.8: py38