build: require python >= 3.10

.github/workflows/python-package.yml

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10"]
+        python-version: ["3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3

README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # *hgvs* - manipulate biological sequence variants according to Human Genome Variation Society recommendations
 
-**Important:** biocommons packages require Python 3.8+.
-[More](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/hgvs-discuss/iLUzjzoD-28)
+**Important:** biocommons packages require Python 3.10+.
+[More](https://biocommons.org/en/latest/contributing/coding-guidelines/#other)
 
 The *hgvs* package provides a Python library to parse, format, validate,
 normalize, and map sequence variants according to [Variation

docs/contributing.rst

@@ -41,9 +41,7 @@ Highlights
 
 * Test your code with ``make test`` before you submit a PR.
 
-* Currently, only Python 2.7 is supported. Support for Python 3.5 is
-  slated for the next release
-  (`#190 <https://github.com/biocommons/hgvs/issues/190/>`__).
+* Currently, only Python >=3.10 is supported, per `Biocommons policy <https://biocommons.org/en/latest/contributing/coding-guidelines/#other>`_.
 
 
 A Quick Contribution Example
@@ -158,11 +156,11 @@ setting UTA_DB_URL.  The format is
 ``postgresql://<user>:<pass>@<host>/<db>/<schema>``. For example:
 
    ``postgresql://anonymous:[email protected]/uta/uta_20140210``
-  
-explicitly selects the public database, and 
+
+explicitly selects the public database, and
 
    ``postgresql://localhost/uta/uta_20140210``
- 
+
 selects a local instance.  Developers can test connectivity like this:
 
    ``$ UTA_DB_URL=postgresql://localhost/uta/uta_20140210 make test-quick``
@@ -232,13 +230,13 @@ understand the code.
   variable names. |eg| ``var_c`` in a function argument list signifies
   that a SequenceVariant object with type='c' is expected.
 
-:hgvs*: a string representing an HGVS variant name.  
+:hgvs*: a string representing an HGVS variant name.
 
 :var*: a :class:`hgvs.variant.SequenceVariant` object
 
-:pos: 
+:pos:
 
-:posedit: 
+:posedit:
 
 :hgvs_position:
 

docs/installation.rst

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Supported Platforms
 to work on Mac.  Other platforms and dependency versions are expected
 to work but have not been tested. Reports of successful operation on
 other platforms (and patches to enable this) are appreciated.
-**Python >=3.5 is now required.**
+**Python >=3.10 is now required.**
 
 
 
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ method for this is::
   $ python3 -m venv venv
   $ source venv/bin/activate
 
-Your shell prompt will change upon activation. 
-  
+Your shell prompt will change upon activation.
+
 See `this tutorial
 <https://realpython.com/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/>`__ for
 more information about virtual environments.
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Install hgvs via pip::
 Installing hgvs from source (for developers)
 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
 
-For the project at https://github.com/biocommons/hgvs. 
+For the project at https://github.com/biocommons/hgvs.
 
 Fetch the source code::
 
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Test your installation
 `hgvs` installs `hgvs-shell`, a command line tool based on
 IPython.  It's a convenience utility that imports and initializes
 frequently-used components.  Try this::
-  
+
   (default-2.7) snafu$ hgvs-shell
   INFO:root:Starting hgvs-shell 1.0.0a1
   INFO:biocommons.seqrepo:biocommons.seqrepo 0.3.1
@@ -170,4 +170,4 @@ in setup.py or requirements.txt indicates that version 1.0 (any patch
 level) is required, and that future 1.x-series releases are
 acceptable.
 
-  
+

pyproject.toml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ authors = [
 description = "HGVS Parser, Formatter, Mapper, Validator"
 readme = "README.rst"
 license = { file="LICENSE.txt" }
-requires-python = ">=3.6"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 classifiers = [
     "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
     "Intended Audience :: Developers",
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ classifiers = [
     "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
     "Programming Language :: Python",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Bio-Informatics",

tox.ini

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py38,py39,py310
+envlist = py310,py311,py312
 
 [testenv]
 setenv =