Consider Dropping Python 3.9 Support and Adopting SPEC0

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Consider Dropping Python 3.9 Support and Adopting SPEC0 #254

Open rbeucher opened 6 hours ago

rbeucher commented 6 hours ago

As part of aligning with emerging standards and simplifying our support for newer Python versions, I'd like us to consider dropping support for Python 3.9 and moving towards adopting the SPEC0 standard. SPEC0, as outlined by the Scientific Python ecosystem, sets a foundation for compatibility with modern Python versions while ensuring robustness and performance improvements. You can find more details about SPEC0 here.

Any thoughts @charles-turner-1 @marc-white ?

marc-white commented 5 hours ago

I think this is a reasonable standard to aim for, with a couple of caveats:

Do we know if there is a tool available for checking and alerting us to upcoming end-of-support dates, via, e.g., GitHub CI/CD?
A particular word of warning with numpy - there were some major changes between v1 and v2 that it may be an idea to get well ahead of.

rbeucher commented 5 hours ago

Not sure about tools. I agree about Numpy v2. We should get support for it.