Move azure-core to 3.8+ (#35622)

Author: lmazuel

sdk/core/azure-core/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 ### Other Changes
 
 - HTTP tracing spans will now include an `error.type` attribute if an error status code is returned.  #34619
+- Minimum required Python version is now 3.8
 
 ## 1.30.1 (2024-02-29)
 

sdk/core/azure-core/setup.py

@@ -49,11 +49,11 @@
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
         "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
     ],
     zip_safe=False,
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
     package_data={
         "pytyped": ["py.typed"],
     },
-    python_requires=">=3.7",
+    python_requires=">=3.8",
     install_requires=[
         "requests>=2.21.0",
         "six>=1.11.0",

sdk/core/azure-core/tests/perf_tests/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Core Python client performance tests
 
-In order to run the performance tests, the `devtools_testutils` package must be installed. This is done as part of the `dev_requirements.txt` installation. Start be creating a new virtual environment for your perf tests. This will need to be a Python 3 environment, preferably >=3.7.
+In order to run the performance tests, the `devtools_testutils` package must be installed. This is done as part of the `dev_requirements.txt` installation. Start be creating a new virtual environment for your perf tests. This will need to be a Python 3 environment, preferably >=3.8.
 
 ### Setup for test resources
 The following environment variables will need to be set for the tests to access the live resources:

sdk/core/azure-core/tests/testserver_tests/coretestserver/setup.py

@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@
         "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
         "Programming Language :: Python",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
         "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
     ],
     packages=find_packages(),