Drop Python 3.8 support

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
       - name: Download distribution artifact

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
 
     name: Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
     steps:

README.md

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Run 'perceval <backend> --help' to get information about a specific backend.
 
 ## Requirements
 
- * Python >= 3.8
+ * Python >= 3.9
  * Poetry >= 1.2
  * git
  * build-essential

perceval/utils.py

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def parse_headers(msg):
             hv = []
 
             for text, charset in email.header.decode_header(value):
-                if type(text) == bytes:
+                if isinstance(text, bytes):
                     charset = charset if charset else 'utf-8'
                     try:
                         text = text.decode(charset, errors='surrogateescape')

pyproject.toml

@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ classifiers = [
 perceval = 'perceval.perceval:main'
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
-python = "^3.8"
+python = "^3.9"
 
 python-dateutil = "^2.6.0"
 requests = "^2.7.0"
 beautifulsoup4 = "^4.3.2"
 feedparser = "^6.0.8"
-dulwich = "^0.20.0"
-urllib3 = "^1.26"
+dulwich = ">=0.21.5,<1.0.0"
+urllib3 = "^2.2"
 PyJWT = "^2.4.0"
 cryptography = ">=41.0.3,<44.0.0"
 grimoirelab-toolkit = { version = ">=0.3", allow-prereleases = true}
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ furo = { version = "^2023.03.27", optional = true }
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 httpretty = "^1.1.4"
-flake8 = "^4.0.1"
+flake8 = "^7.1.1"
 coverage = "^7.2.3"
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]

releases/unreleased/python-minimum-version-updated.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+title: Python minimum version updated
+category: dependency
+author: Jose Javier Merchante <jjmerchante@bitergia.com>
+issue: null
+notes: >
+  Python 3.8 will reach its end of life in October 2024.
+  Python 3.9 is the minimum version required by the project.

tests/test_mediawiki.py

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ class HTTPServer():
     def routes(cls, version="1.28", empty=False, response_num=200):
         """Configure in http the routes to be served"""
 
-        assert(version in TESTED_VERSIONS)
+        assert version in TESTED_VERSIONS
 
         if version == "1.28":
             mediawiki_siteinfo = read_file('data/mediawiki/mediawiki_siteinfo_1.28.json')