I've found that xarray has pinned to python >=3.9 since February 2023 as reflected in release v2023.02.0. Currently there are failures for Python 3.8 in PR #1124 because it's using xarray version v2023.01.0 with Pandas > 2. So I think it would be good to bump up the python minimum requirement since we are using xarray heavily.
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I've found that xarray has pinned to python >=3.9 since February 2023 as reflected in release
v2023.02.0
. Currently there are failures for Python 3.8 in PR #1124 because it's using xarray versionv2023.01.0
with Pandas > 2. So I think it would be good to bump up the python minimum requirement since we are using xarray heavily.