Drop support for EOL Python 3.8

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.12', 'pypy-3.10']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.12', 'pypy-3.10']
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout

pyroma/tests.py

@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ class PyPITest(unittest.TestCase):
     @unittest.mock.patch("pyroma.pypidata._get_project_data")
     def test_distribute(self, projectdatamock):
         datafile = resource_filename(__name__, os.path.join("testdata", "jsondata", "distribute.json"))
-        with open(datafile, "rt", encoding="UTF-8") as file:
+        with open(datafile, encoding="UTF-8") as file:
             projectdatamock.return_value = json.load(file)
 
         proxystub.set_debug_context("distributedata.py", xmlrpclib.ServerProxy, False)
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ def test_distribute(self, projectdatamock):
     @unittest.mock.patch("pyroma.pypidata._get_project_data")
     def test_complete(self, projectdatamock):
         datafile = resource_filename(__name__, os.path.join("testdata", "jsondata", "complete.json"))
-        with open(datafile, "rt", encoding="UTF-8") as file:
+        with open(datafile, encoding="UTF-8") as file:
             projectdatamock.return_value = json.load(file)
 
         proxystub.set_debug_context("completedata.py", xmlrpclib.ServerProxy, False)

setup.cfg

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ classifiers =
     Operating System :: OS Independent
     Programming Language :: Python
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3
-    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
@@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ include_package_data = True
 packages = find:
 package_dir =
     = .
-python_requires = >=3.8
+python_requires = >=3.9
 install_requires =
     build>=0.7.0
     docutils