cmu-delphi / delphi-epidata

An open API for epidemiological data.
https://cmu-delphi.github.io/delphi-epidata/
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Python 3.8 EOL in Oct 2024 #1415

Open melange396 opened 2 months ago

melange396 commented 2 months ago

This has similar concerns to those in https://github.com/cmu-delphi/covidcast-indicators/issues/1916 and some are also mentioned in https://github.com/cmu-delphi/delphi-epidata/issues/1019 ...

Things will not simply "stop working" when this milestone date is reached, but it may leave us open to new vulnerabilities that emerge afterward.

Python version 3.12 is (currently) the latest feature-complete version which makes it an attractive target, though migrating to that may present a number of difficulties. We can probably more easily move to 3.9 and buy ourselves another year of support and updates.