Merge pull request #2034 from AndreMiras/feature/drop-python3.9

🔥 Drop EOL Python 3.8 and 3.9 support

Author: AndreMiras

.github/workflows/test_python.yml

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         python:
-           - '3.8'
-           - '3.9'
            - '3.10'
            - '3.11'
            - '3.12'

docs/source/installation.rst

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ for installing Buildozer on Ubuntu or on MacOS, also there are special notes for
 be used (for example Colab) but there are no instructions. The iOS section 
 contains instructions for installing kivy-ios on MacOS.
 
-Buildozer is tested on Python 3.8 and above. 
+Buildozer is tested on Python 3.10 and above.
 
 Targeting Android
 -----------------

setup.py

@@ -2,35 +2,16 @@
 Buildozer
 '''
 
-import sys
 from setuptools import setup
 from os.path import dirname, join
-import codecs
 import os
 import re
-import io
 
 here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 
-CURRENT_PYTHON = sys.version_info[:2]
-REQUIRED_PYTHON = (3, 8)
-
-# This check and everything above must remain compatible with Python 2.7.
-if CURRENT_PYTHON < REQUIRED_PYTHON:
-    sys.stderr.write("""
-==========================
-Unsupported Python version
-==========================
-This version of buildozer requires Python {}.{}, but you're trying to
-install it on Python {}.{}.
-""".format(*(REQUIRED_PYTHON + CURRENT_PYTHON)))
-    sys.exit(1)
-
 
 def find_version(*file_paths):
-    # Open in Latin-1 so that we avoid encoding errors.
-    # Use codecs.open for Python 2 compatibility
-    with codecs.open(os.path.join(here, *file_paths), 'r', 'utf-8') as f:
+    with open(os.path.join(here, *file_paths), encoding='utf-8') as f:
         version_file = f.read()
 
     # The version line must have the form
@@ -43,9 +24,9 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
 
 
 curdir = dirname(__file__)
-with io.open(join(curdir, "README.md"), encoding="utf-8") as fd:
+with open(join(curdir, "README.md"), encoding="utf-8") as fd:
     readme = fd.read()
-with io.open(join(curdir, "CHANGELOG.md"), encoding="utf-8") as fd:
+with open(join(curdir, "CHANGELOG.md"), encoding="utf-8") as fd:
     changelog = fd.read()
 
 setup(
@@ -86,14 +67,12 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
         'docs': ['sphinx', 'sphinxawesome_theme>=5.3,<6'],
         'ios': ['kivy-ios'],
     },
-    python_requires='>=3.8',
+    python_requires='>=3.10',
     classifiers=[
         'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
         'Intended Audience :: Developers',
         'Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',