[Storage] Deprecated Support for Python 3.8 in Changefeed + Extensions Packages (#41542)

Author: weirongw23-msft

sdk/storage/azure-storage-blob-changefeed/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## 12.0.0b6 (Unreleased)
 
+This version and all future versions will require Python 3.9+. Python 3.8 is no longer supported.
+
 ### Features Added
 
 

sdk/storage/azure-storage-blob-changefeed/README.md

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ This preview package for Python enables users to get blob change feed events. Th
 ## Getting started
 
 ### Prerequisites
-* Python 3.8 or later is required to use this package. For more details, please read our page on [Azure SDK for Python version support policy](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/wiki/Azure-SDKs-Python-version-support-policy).
+* Python 3.9 or later is required to use this package. For more details, please read our page on [Azure SDK for Python version support policy](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/wiki/Azure-SDKs-Python-version-support-policy).
 * You must have an [Azure subscription](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/) and an
 [Azure storage account](https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-storage-quickstart-create-account) to use this package.
 

sdk/storage/azure-storage-blob-changefeed/setup.py

@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
         'Programming Language :: Python',
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11',
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@
     package_data={
         'pytyped': ['py.typed'],
     },
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     install_requires=[
         "azure-storage-blob>=12.19.1,<13.0.0"
     ],

sdk/storage/azure-storage-extensions/README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ This package contains a set of C-Extension modules intended to be used with the
 ## Getting started
 
 ### Prerequisites
-* Python 3.8 or later is required to use this package. For more details, please read our page on [Azure SDK for Python version support policy](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/wiki/Azure-SDKs-Python-version-support-policy).
+* Python 3.9 or later is required to use this package. For more details, please read our page on [Azure SDK for Python version support policy](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/wiki/Azure-SDKs-Python-version-support-policy).
 
 ### Install the package
 This package is not meant to be used standalone and is meant to accompany other Azure Storage Python SDK libraries. However it can be installed and used standalone as well.

sdk/storage/azure-storage-extensions/pyproject.toml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ suppressed_skip_warnings = ["*"]
 requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "cibuildwheel"]
 
 [tool.cibuildwheel]
-build = ["cp38*", "pp38*", "pp39*", "pp310*"]
+build = ["cp39*", "pp39*", "pp310*"]
 test-requires = "pytest"
 test-command = "pytest {project}/tests"
 test-skip = "*-macosx_arm64"

sdk/storage/azure-storage-extensions/setup.py

@@ -41,15 +41,14 @@ def get_tag(self):
         'Programming Language :: Python',
         "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-        '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',
         'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
     ],
     zip_safe=False,
-    python_requires=">=3.8",
+    python_requires=">=3.9",
     ext_package='azure.storage.extensions',
     ext_modules=[
         Extension(