Drop support for Python 3.8

Author: marcelm

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
         include:
         - os: macos-13
           python-version: "3.10"
@@ -91,8 +91,6 @@ jobs:
       uses: pypa/[email protected]
       env:
         CIBW_BUILD: "cp*-manylinux_x86_64 cp3*-win_amd64 cp3*-macosx_x86_64 cp3*-macosx_arm64"
-        CIBW_SKIP: "cp37-*"
-        CIBW_TEST_SKIP: "cp38-macosx_*:arm64"
     - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
       with:
         name: wheels-${{ matrix.os }}

CHANGES.rst

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ unreleased
 ----------
 
 * Added support for Python 3.13
+* Dropped support for Python 3.8
 
 v1.2.2 (2024-10-04)
 -------------------

README.rst

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 dnaio processes FASTQ, FASTA and uBAM files
 ===========================================
 
-``dnaio`` is a Python 3.8+ library for very efficient parsing and writing of FASTQ and also FASTA files.
+``dnaio`` is a Python 3.9+ library for very efficient parsing and writing of FASTQ and also FASTA files.
 Since ``dnaio`` version 1.1.0, support for efficiently parsing uBAM files has been implemented.
 This allows reading ONT files from the `dorado <https://github.com/nanoporetech/dorado>`_
 basecaller directly.

pyproject.toml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Bio-Informatics"
 ]
-requires-python = ">3.7"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dependencies = [
     "xopen >= 1.4.0"
 ]

tox.ini

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = flake8,black,mypy,docs,py38,py39,py310,py311,py312,py313
+envlist = flake8,black,mypy,docs,py39,py310,py311,py312,py313
 isolated_build = True
 
 [testenv]