add support for newer python versions and drop for older

Author: alexjrk

.github/workflows/tests.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.7", "3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3

docs/install.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Requirements
 
-Python WireMock is known to support Python 3.7 or above.
+Python WireMock is known to support Python 3.9 or above.
 
 ## Pip
 

docs/quickstart.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ In this example we will use the [pytest](https://docs.pytest.org/) framework.
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Python 3.7 or above
+- Python 3.9 or above
 - Pip 20.0.0 or above (use `apt install python3-pip`, for example)
 - Pytest 7.3.0 or above (use `pip install pytest`)
 - Testcontainers 3.5.0 or above (use `pip install testcontainers`)

examples/quickstart/README.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ See the step-by-step guide [here](../../docs/quickstart.md)
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
-- Python 3.7 or above
+- Python 3.9 or above
 - Pip 20.0.0 or above (use `apt install python3-pip`, for example)
 - Pytest 7.3.0 or above (use `pip install pytest`)
 - Testcontainers 3.5.0 or above (use `pip install testcontainers`)