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TASK DESCRIPTION Proposal -------- The last main release Pywikibot 9 was released in March 2023. I propose to **drop support for Python 3.7 with Pywikibot 10**, deployed probably in at the beginning of 2025. Python 3.7 reached EOL in June 2023 (1) <https://devguide.python.org/versions/>. The current download statistic of the last 6 months is as follows (2) <https://pypistats.org/api/packages/pywikibot/python_minor>: | **Version ** | **Downloads [%]** | 263 843 | | 3.13 | 0.0 | | | 3.12 | 14.5 | ⏹ | | 3.11 | 56.2 | ⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹⏹ | | 3.10 | 15.9 | ⏹⏹ | | 3.9 | 5.4 | | | 3.8 | 1.2 | | | 3.7 | 1.0 | | | unknown | 5.6 | | | Please add your remarks, expand pros and cons and maybe draw attention to it when you find a blocker. Pros ---- - Toolforge k8s 3.9 available since May 2022 (T268438 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268438>) - Python 3.8 has importlib.metadata and does not need any external package - Also a lot of packages do not support Python 3.7 any longer with their current release. - Python 3.8 comes with improvements like `assignment expressions`, `positional-only parameters`, `self-documenting f-strings`, `functools.singledispatchmethod()` and is much faster than Python 3.7 (3) <https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html> - L10N updates can still be done by a maintenance script for older Pywikibot versions - Pywikibot 3.7 is not used very often (~ 1.0 %) - CI tests can be run faster without Python 3.7 support - Python 3.7 is not available on latest ubuntu os but needs 22.04 - Python 3.7 can still be used with Pywikbot 9. Cons ---- - Toolforge Buster bastion still has 3.7 available - Python 3.8 has syntax changes that cannot be backported in any way. - Pywikibot is no longer updated for older Python versions - Bugfixes are not available for older Pywikibot versions TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378893 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Xqt Cc: Aklapper, Xqt, pywikibot-bugs-list, mevo, PotsdamLamb, Jyoo1011, JohnsonLee01, SHEKH, Dijkstra, Khutuck, Zkhalido, Aram, Viztor, Wenyi, Tbscho, MayS, Mdupont, JJMC89, Dvorapa, Altostratus, Avicennasis, mys_721tx, jayvdb, Masti, Alchimista
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