Upgrade CI to 3.9 and drop Python 3.8 support(#1184)

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Set up Python 3.8
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      - name: Set up Python 3.9
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.9
 
       - name: Install module
         run: |
@@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Set up Python 3.8
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      - name: Set up Python 3.9
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.9
 
       - name: Install module
         run: |
@@ -67,12 +67,12 @@ jobs:
     needs: [check-code-format, run-tests]
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Set up Python 3.8
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      - name: Set up Python 3.9
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.9
 
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |

README.md

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ For reference, here's the time and memory usage that are required to transcribe
 
 ## Requirements
 
-* Python 3.8 or greater
+* Python 3.9 or greater
 
 Unlike openai-whisper, FFmpeg does **not** need to be installed on the system. The audio is decoded with the Python library [PyAV](https://github.com/PyAV-Org/PyAV) which bundles the FFmpeg libraries in its package.
 

setup.py

@@ -45,14 +45,13 @@ setup(
         "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
-        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
         "Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence",
     ],
     keywords="openai whisper speech ctranslate2 inference quantization transformer",
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     install_requires=install_requires,
     extras_require={
         "conversion": conversion_requires,