Remove deprecated pkg_resources and drop Python 3.7 support (#337)

Author: zliang-akamai

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.7','3.8','3.9','3.10','3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.8','3.9','3.10','3.11']
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
       - uses: actions/setup-python@v4

linode_api4/linode_client.py

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 
 import json
 import logging
+from importlib.metadata import version
 from typing import BinaryIO, Tuple
 from urllib import parse
 
-import pkg_resources
 import requests
 from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter, Retry
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 from .paginated_list import PaginatedList
 from .util import drop_null_keys
 
-package_version = pkg_resources.require("linode_api4")[0].version
+package_version = version("linode_api4")
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ line_length = 80
 
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 80
-target-version = ["py37", "py38", "py39", "py310", "py311"]
+target-version = ["py38", "py39", "py310", "py311", "py312"]
 
 [tool.autoflake]
 expand-star-imports = true

setup.py

@@ -103,11 +103,11 @@ def bake_version(v):
         # that you indicate whether you support Python 2, Python 3 or both.
         'Programming Language :: Python',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12',
     ],
 
     # What does your project relate to?
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ def bake_version(v):
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['contrib', 'docs', 'test', 'test.*']),
 
     # What do we need for this to run
-    python_requires=">=3.7",
+    python_requires=">=3.8",
 
     install_requires=[
         "requests",