drop Python 3.8 support

Signed-off-by: William Woodruff <william@trailofbits.com>

Author: woodruffw

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ jobs:
     uses: trailofbits/.github/.github/workflows/make-lint.yml@v0.1.3
     with:
       language: "python"
-      python-version: "3.8"
+      python-version: "3.9"
 
   all-lints-pass:
     if: always()

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4

README.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Fickling can be used both as a **python library** and a **CLI**.
 
 ## Installation
 
-Fickling has been tested on Python 3.8 through Python 3.13 and has very few dependencies.
+Fickling has been tested on Python 3.9 through Python 3.13 and has very few dependencies.
 Both the library and command line utility can be installed through pip:
 
 ```bash

pyproject.toml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ classifiers = [
   "Topic :: Utilities",
 ]
 dependencies = ["astunparse ~= 1.6.3", "stdlib_list ~= 0.11.1"]
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 torch = ["torch >= 2.1.0", "torchvision >= 0.16.1"]