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cmu-delphi / covidcast-indicators

Back end for producing indicators and loading them into the COVIDcast API.

https://cmu-delphi.github.io/delphi-epidata/api/covidcast.html

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Python 3.8 EOL looms #1916

Open dsweber2 opened 9 months ago

dsweber2 commented 9 months ago

Came up in discussions with @nolangormley, it appears 3.8 is EOL by the end of 2024. There are some packages which seem to depend on 3.8, so we need to figure out how to update that/workaround. Related to https://github.com/cmu-delphi/covidcast-indicators/issues/1854

melange396 commented 9 months ago

looking at the version release cycle info in your python.org link, we might want to aim to use python 3.12 for longevity, but we could end up being hamstrung into bumping to just 3.9 instead as seen in https://github.com/cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata/issues/1019

dshemetov commented 9 months ago

Some useful resources:

Support for popular Python packages by Python version
Search Python changes by version (try typing in 3.9 in the search bar)

dshemetov commented 9 months ago

Some criteria:

upgraded Python version should support all our dependencies
upgraded Python version should be supported by our Dockerfiles (or we need to find workarounds for those Dockerfiles)
- for instance, this Docker image which is used in our server Dockerfiles here only supports Python 3.9