Bump python minimum supported version to 3.10

maflcko commented at 7:26 pm on July 25, 2024: member

All supported operating systems ship with python 3.10 (or later), so bumping the minimum should not cause any issues. A bump will allow new code to use new python features.

For reference:

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/python3
https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/python3
FreeBSD 13/14 ships with 3.11
CentOS-like 8/9 ships with 3.11/3.12 (via appstream)
OpenSuse Tumbleweed ships with all python versions, e.g. https://software.opensuse.org/package/python312-base

This is for Bitcoin Core 29.0 in 2025 (next year), not the soon upcoming 28.0 this fall.

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Bump python minimum supported version to 3.10 fa1b139d17

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hebasto commented at 10:31 am on August 29, 2024: member

All supported operating systems ship with python 3.10 (or later), so bumping the minimum should not cause any issues.

I agree on using newer tools.

A bump will allow new code to use new python features.

Out of curiosity, which features can you mention specifically?

maflcko commented at 10:34 am on August 29, 2024: member

In theory one could use the Python match, which was ported from Rust, IIRC.

Not sure if anyone wants to do that, or if it is worth it. Happy to close this pull instead and do a bump to 3.11 next year instead, which comes with more useful features.

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AngusP approved

AngusP commented at 9:56 am on September 1, 2024: contributor

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A few more:

Brew provides 3.9.19 thru 3.12.5 (with 3.8 as a deprecated package)
Fedora 40 ships 3.12.5
Alpine v3.20 ships 3.12.3
Arch ships 3.12.5

Zero-1729 commented at 1:19 pm on September 1, 2024: contributor

In theory one could use the Python match, which was ported from Rust, IIRC.

Not sure if anyone wants to do that, or if it is worth it. Happy to close this pull instead and do a bump to 3.11 next year instead, which comes with more useful features.

In that case, it might be worth just waiting to bump to 3.11 instead.

l0rinc approved

l0rinc commented at 1:56 pm on September 1, 2024: contributor

– Found Python3: /opt/homebrew/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/bin/python3.12 (found suitable version “3.12.5”, minimum required is “3.10”)

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For reference: …

https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/python3

Note: focal is supported until April 2025 and ships with 3.8, but since that’s already unsupported as per our current 3.9 requirements that doesn’t really change anything.

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