Merge branch 'master' into add_github_actions

Author: asiaszmek

.github/workflows/python-package.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ jobs:
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         python -m pip install flake8 pytest
         if [ -f requirements.txt ]; then pip install -r requirements.txt; fi
+
     - name: Lint with flake8
       run: |
         # stop the build if there are Python syntax errors or undefined names