Use Python 3.9 (#422)
* Fixes #405. As GitHub Actions does not yet support Python 3.10 for all
runner environments, we will stay with Python 3.9 for now. The Python 3.9
end-of-life date of Oct 2025 is adequate for our purposes.
* Upgrade flake8 and ansible-lint packages to sync with new Python version.
* Update docs
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index d793b5c..42db105 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
# under the License.
#
-# This GitHub Actions workflow will prepare a environment with Python 3.6
+# This GitHub Actions workflow will prepare a environment with Python 3.9
# and the required Python packages, to run the CI tests
# (Ansible-lint, Flake8 etc.) for Fluo-Muchos.
# See also:
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
- uses: actions/checkout@v1
- uses: actions/setup-python@v2
with:
- python-version: '3.6'
+ python-version: '3.9'
- name: Install required packages
run: pip install -r ./lib/requirements.txt
- name: Install Azure specific Ansible collections
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index babde0e..e571e6c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@
Muchos requires the following common components for installation and setup:
* Python 3 with a virtual environment setup.
-Create a Python 3 environment and switch to it. (We tested using Python 3.6.8,
+Create a Python 3 environment and switch to it. (The CI tests using Python 3.9,
but this should work in later versions as well. If you encounter problems,
-please file an issue.)
+please file an issue).
```bash
cd ~
-python3.6 -m venv env
+python3.9 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
```
* `ssh-agent` installed and running and ssh-agent forwarding. Note that this may
diff --git a/docs/azure-ubuntu-1804.md b/docs/azure-ubuntu-1804.md
index d3573ea..fbf5b81 100644
--- a/docs/azure-ubuntu-1804.md
+++ b/docs/azure-ubuntu-1804.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
# https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-apt?view=azure-cli-latest
# Install Ansible Azure for Python 3. The main reason these tips were written
-# was to save you time on the following steps. Muchos needs Python 3.6 and above.
+# was to save you time on the following steps. Muchos is tested with Python 3.9 and above.
# If python-pip and pip were installed and used, those would go against Python 2
# and would not work.
sudo apt install python3-pip
diff --git a/lib/requirements.txt b/lib/requirements.txt
index ef83403..4433ead 100644
--- a/lib/requirements.txt
+++ b/lib/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-flake8==3.8.0
+flake8==4.0.1
ansible-core==2.11.3
-ansible-lint==5.1.2
+ansible-lint==5.3.1
nose2==0.10.0
