Drop Python3.7 (#3864)

Ticket 118795

Author: Wovchena

.github/workflows/accuracy_checker.yml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         runs-on: [ubuntu-20.04, ubuntu-22.04]
-        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, '3.10']
+        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, '3.10']
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runs-on }}
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3

tools/accuracy_checker/requirements-extra.in

@@ -2,17 +2,10 @@
 tqdm>=4.54.1
 
 # image reading and preprocessing
-# networkx version upperbound in scikit-image is conflicted
-networkx~=2.5;python_version<"3.7"
 # nncf's upperbound: https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/nncf/blob/1de67217adf60a29afa310edf4a5f4d36314446a/setup.py#L104
-networkx<=2.8.2;python_version>="3.7"
-# note: python 3.6 wheels is not available since 0.18
-scikit-image~=0.17.2;python_version<"3.7"
-scikit-image>=0.19.2;python_version>="3.7"
-
-# there is issue with resolving versions for python3.6 and python3.7, pin to specific version of lib
-imagecodecs~=2020.5.30;python_version<"3.7"
-imagecodecs~=2021.11.20;python_version=="3.7"
+networkx<=2.8.2
+scikit-image>=0.19.2
+
 imagecodecs~=2022.2.22;python_version=="3.8" or python_version=="3.9"
 imagecodecs~=2023.3.16;python_version>="3.11"
 
@@ -37,10 +30,8 @@ pydicom>=2.1.2
 
 # nlp, tokenization
 sentencepiece>=0.1.95
-tokenizers~=0.10.1;python_version<"3.7"
-tokenizers>=0.10.1;python_version>="3.7"
-transformers>=4.5,<4.17;python_version<"3.7"
-transformers>=4.5;python_version>="3.7"
+tokenizers>=0.10.1
+transformers>=4.5
 
 nltk>=3.5
 
@@ -50,8 +41,7 @@ parasail~=1.2.4;platform_system=="Windows"
 fast-ctc-decode>=0.2.5;python_version<"3.11"
 
 # raw image formats processing
-rawpy>=0.16.0;python_version<"3.7"
-rawpy~=0.17.1;python_version>="3.7"
+rawpy~=0.17.1
 
 # lmdb dataset support
 lmdb>=1.2.1

tools/accuracy_checker/setup.py

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ def prepare_requirements():
             "accuracy_check=openvino.tools.accuracy_checker.main:main",
             "convert_annotation=openvino.tools.accuracy_checker.annotation_converters.convert:main"]},
     zip_safe=False,
-    python_requires='>=3.5',
+    python_requires='>=3.8',
     install_requires=_requirements,
     tests_require=[read("requirements-test.in")],
     cmdclass={'test': PyTest, 'install_core': CoreInstall},