From a066cf047fb122bbcec62424312ae8c51bac99e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Courtney Pacheco <6019922+courtneypacheco@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 07:49:04 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Bump minimum required Python version to 3.11

This bump includes updates to documentation, Git workflows, test configs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Courtney Pacheco <6019922+courtneypacheco@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .github/workflows/test.yml | 1 -
 .pylintrc                  | 2 +-
 README.md                  | 4 ++--
 pyproject.toml             | 4 +---
 tox.ini                    | 1 -
 5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index 78c5f3cb..35e10537 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         python:
-          - "3.10"
           - "3.11"
         platform:
           - "ubuntu-latest"
diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index 14b3eb1c..50e7f1b2 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ persistent=yes
 
 # Minimum Python version to use for version dependent checks. Will default to
 # the version used to run pylint.
-py-version=3.10
+py-version=3.11
 
 # Discover python modules and packages in the file system subtree.
 recursive=no
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9a9900d4..a82cf26b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -90,14 +90,14 @@ A teacher model is used to generate new multiple choice questions based on the k
 
 ## Development
 
-> **⚠️ Note:** Must use Python version 3.10 or later.
+> **⚠️ Note:** Must use Python version 3.11 or later.
 
 ### Set up your dev environment
 
 The following tools are required:
 
 - [`git`](https://git-scm.com)
-- [`python`](https://www.python.org) (v3.10 or v3.11)
+- [`python`](https://www.python.org) (v3.11)
 - [`pip`](https://pypi.org/project/pip/) (v23.0+)
 - [`bash`](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) (v5+, for functional tests)
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4fb00fa8..f1ffed5f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ authors = [
 description = "Evaluation"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = {text = "Apache-2.0"}
-requires-python = ">=3.9"
+requires-python = ">=3.11"
 classifiers = [
     "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
     "Environment :: Console",
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ classifiers = [
     "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
     "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
-    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 8adeebda..c1337d4b 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -103,4 +103,3 @@ passenv =
 [gh]
 python =
     3.11 = py311-{unitcov, functional}
-    3.10 = py310-{unitcov, functional}