[cleanup] Misc (#11216)

- Add Python 3.13 to CI, finalize 3.13 support
- Remove Python 3.8 from CI in preparation for removing 3.8 support
- Document that PyPy3.8 and PyPy3.9 are no longer supported
- Usual documentation fixes and code cleanup

Closes #8248, Closes #11146, Closes #11149, Closes #11211
Authored by: Grub4K, grqz, DTrombett, KarboniteKream, bashonly, mikkovedru, seproDev

Co-authored-by: N/Ame <173015200+grqz@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: DTrombett <d@trombett.org>
Co-authored-by: =?UTF-8?q?Klemen=20Ko=C5=A1ir?= <klemen.kosir@kream.io>
Co-authored-by: bashonly <88596187+bashonly@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Mikko Vedru <mikko.vedru@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: sepro <sepro@sepr0.com>

.github/workflows/core.yml

@@ -36,16 +36,20 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
-        # CPython 3.8 is in quick-test
-        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', pypy-3.8, pypy-3.10]
+        # CPython 3.9 is in quick-test
+        python-version: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13', pypy-3.10]
         include:
         # atleast one of each CPython/PyPy tests must be in windows
         - os: windows-latest
-          python-version: '3.8'
+          python-version: '3.9'
+        - os: windows-latest
+          python-version: '3.10'
         - os: windows-latest
           python-version: '3.12'
         - os: windows-latest
-          python-version: pypy-3.9
+          python-version: '3.13'
+        - os: windows-latest
+          python-version: pypy-3.10
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}

.github/workflows/download.yml

@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: true
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12', pypy-3.8, pypy-3.10]
+        python-version: ['3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13', pypy-3.10]
         include:
         # atleast one of each CPython/PyPy tests must be in windows
         - os: windows-latest
-          python-version: '3.8'
+          python-version: '3.9'
         - os: windows-latest
-          python-version: pypy-3.9
+          python-version: pypy-3.10
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}

.github/workflows/quick-test.yml

@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - name: Set up Python 3.8
+    - name: Set up Python 3.9
       uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: '3.8'
+        python-version: '3.9'
     - name: Install test requirements
       run: python3 ./devscripts/install_deps.py -o --include test
     - name: Run tests
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v4
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
       with:
-        python-version: '3.8'
+        python-version: '3.9'
     - name: Install dev dependencies
       run: python3 ./devscripts/install_deps.py -o --include static-analysis
     - name: Make lazy extractors