build: remove Python 3.8 references

.github/workflows/check-reserved-keywords.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: setup python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.11
 
     - name: Install pip
       run: pip install -r requirements/pip.txt

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.11']
+        python-version: ['3.11']
         toxenv: [django42, quality]
 
     steps:
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
       run: tox
 
     - name: Run Coverage
-      if: matrix.python-version == '3.8' && matrix.toxenv=='django42'
+      if: matrix.python-version == '3.11' && matrix.toxenv=='django42'
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v4
       with:
         flags: unittests
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: setup python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.11
 
     - name: Install pip
       run: pip install -r requirements/pip.txt

.github/workflows/pypi-publish.yml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: setup python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v2
         with:
-          python-version: 3.8
+          python-version: 3.11
 
       - name: Install pip
         run: pip install -r requirements/pip.txt

.github/workflows/verify_changed_contract.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: setup python
       uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.11
 
     - name: Install pip
       run: pip install -r requirements/pip.txt

edxval/api.py

@@ -1088,7 +1088,9 @@ def create_transcripts_xml(video_id, video_el, resource_fs, static_dir):
     return dict(xml=video_el, transcripts=transcript_files_map)
 
 
-def import_from_xml(xml, edx_video_id, resource_fs, static_dir, external_transcripts=None, course_id=None):
+def import_from_xml(
+        xml, edx_video_id, resource_fs, static_dir, external_transcripts=None, course_id=None
+):  # pylint: disable=too-many-positional-arguments
     """
     Imports data from a video_asset element about the given video_id.
     If the edx_video_id already exists, then no changes are made. If an unknown
@@ -1205,7 +1207,9 @@ def import_from_xml(xml, edx_video_id, resource_fs, static_dir, external_transcr
     return edx_video_id
 
 
-def import_transcript_from_fs(edx_video_id, language_code, file_name, provider, resource_fs, static_dir):
+def import_transcript_from_fs(
+        edx_video_id, language_code, file_name, provider, resource_fs, static_dir
+):  # pylint: disable=too-many-positional-arguments
     """
     Imports transcript file from file system and creates transcript record in DS.
 

edxval/models.py

@@ -485,7 +485,9 @@ def get_or_none(cls, video_id, language_code):
         return transcript
 
     @classmethod
-    def create(cls, video, language_code, file_format, content, provider):
+    def create(
+            cls, video, language_code, file_format, content, provider
+    ):  # pylint: disable=too-many-positional-arguments
         """
         Create a Video Transcript.
 

edxval/tests/test_api.py

@@ -2840,7 +2840,9 @@ def test_get_video_transcript_url(self):
         },
     )
     @unpack
-    def test_create_or_update_video_transcript(self, file_data, file_name, file_format, language_code, provider):
+    def test_create_or_update_video_transcript(
+            self, file_data, file_name, file_format, language_code, provider
+    ):  # pylint: disable=too-many-positional-arguments
         """
         Verify that `create_or_update_video_transcript` api function updates existing transcript as expected.
         """
@@ -2897,7 +2899,9 @@ def test_create_or_update_video_transcript(self, file_data, file_name, file_form
         },
     )
     @unpack
-    def test_create_or_update_video_exceptions(self, video_id, file_format, provider, exception, exception_message):
+    def test_create_or_update_video_exceptions(
+            self, video_id, file_format, provider, exception, exception_message
+    ):  # pylint: disable=too-many-positional-arguments
         """
         Verify that `create_or_update_video_transcript` api function raise exceptions on invalid values.
         """
@@ -3015,7 +3019,9 @@ def test_create_video_transcript(self):
         }
     )
     @unpack
-    def test_create_video_transcript_exceptions(self, video_id, language_code, file_format, provider, exception_msg):
+    def test_create_video_transcript_exceptions(
+            self, video_id, language_code, file_format, provider, exception_msg
+    ):  # pylint: disable=too-many-positional-arguments
         """
         Verify that `create_video_transcript` api function raise exceptions on invalid values.
         """

edxval/views.py

@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ def post(self, request):
 
         try:
             validate_generated_images(generated_images, LIST_MAX_ITEMS)
-        except Exception as e:
+        except Exception as e:  # pylint: disable=broad-exception-caught
             return Response(
                 status=status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST,
                 data={'message': str(e)}

pylintrc

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 # SERIOUSLY.
 #
 # ------------------------------
-# Generated by edx-lint version: 5.3.0
+# Generated by edx-lint version: 5.3.7
 # ------------------------------
 [MASTER]
 ignore = migrations
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ enable =
 	useless-suppression,
 disable = 
 	bad-indentation,
+	broad-exception-raised,
 	consider-using-f-string,
 	duplicate-code,
 	file-ignored,
@@ -380,6 +381,6 @@ ext-import-graph =
 int-import-graph = 
 
 [EXCEPTIONS]
-overgeneral-exceptions = Exception
+overgeneral-exceptions = builtins.Exception
 
-# e4144201a3f25df503e5cbb5cc51147c12a2d137
+# 9e382112fd455855f6d0f08cef2bdb5077da2d63

requirements/ci.txt

@@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ certifi==2024.8.30
     # via requests
 chardet==5.2.0
     # via tox
-charset-normalizer==3.3.2
+charset-normalizer==3.4.0
     # via requests
 colorama==0.4.6
     # via tox
-coverage[toml]==7.6.1
+coverage[toml]==7.6.4
     # via coveralls
 coveralls==4.0.1
     # via -r requirements/ci.in
-distlib==0.3.8
+distlib==0.3.9
     # via virtualenv
 docopt==0.6.2
     # via coveralls
@@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ pyproject-api==1.8.0
     # via tox
 requests==2.32.3
     # via coveralls
-tox==4.20.0
+tox==4.23.2
     # via -r requirements/ci.in
 urllib3==2.2.3
     # via requests
-virtualenv==20.26.5
+virtualenv==20.27.1
     # via tox

requirements/common_constraints.txt

@@ -29,3 +29,7 @@ django-simple-history==3.0.0
 # This can be unpinned once https://github.com/openedx/edx-platform/issues/34586
 # has been resolved and edx-platform is running with pymongo>=4.4.0
 event-tracking<2.4.1
+
+# Cause: https://github.com/openedx/edx-lint/issues/458
+# This can be unpinned once https://github.com/openedx/edx-lint/issues/459 has been resolved.
+pip<24.3

requirements/constraints.txt

@@ -11,13 +11,6 @@
 # Common constraints for edx repos
 -c common_constraints.txt
 
-# For python greater than or equal to 3.9 backports.zoneinfo is causing failures
-backports.zoneinfo;python_version<"3.9"
-
-# Python 3.8 is not supported by newer versions of docutils. Remove this pin once
-# python 3.8 is deprecated
-docutils==0.20.1
-
 # 5.4.0 is breaking for Python 3.8 and 3.11 CI checks with error
 # importlib.resources' has no attribute 'files'
 # To be unpinned once edx-val moves to Python 3.12