build: update required python version to 3.8

Co-Authored-By: Jim B <d3x0r@users.noreply.github.com>
PR-URL: #54358
Reviewed-By: Christian Clauss <cclauss@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>

BUILDING.md

@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ Consult previous versions of this document for older versions of Node.js:
 
 ### Prerequisites
 
-* Python support: the Node.js project supports Python >= 3.6 for building and testing.
+* [A supported version of Python][Python versions] for building and testing.
 * Memory: at least 8GB of RAM is typically required when compiling with 4 parallel jobs (e.g: `make -j4`)
 
 ### Unix and macOS

android-configure

@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ command -v python3.11 >/dev/null && exec python3.11 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3.10 >/dev/null && exec python3.10 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3.9 >/dev/null && exec python3.9 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3.8 >/dev/null && exec python3.8 "$0" "$@"
-command -v python3.7 >/dev/null && exec python3.7 "$0" "$@"
-command -v python3.6 >/dev/null && exec python3.6 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3 >/dev/null && exec python3 "$0" "$@"
 exec python "$0" "$@"
 ''' "$0" "$@"
@@ -23,7 +21,7 @@ except ImportError:
   from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
 
 print('Node.js android configure: Found Python {}.{}.{}...'.format(*sys.version_info))
-acceptable_pythons = ((3, 11), (3, 10), (3, 9), (3, 8), (3, 7), (3, 6))
+acceptable_pythons = ((3, 11), (3, 10), (3, 9), (3, 8))
 if sys.version_info[:2] in acceptable_pythons:
   import android_configure
 else:

configure

@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ command -v python3.11 >/dev/null && exec python3.11 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3.10 >/dev/null && exec python3.10 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3.9 >/dev/null && exec python3.9 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3.8 >/dev/null && exec python3.8 "$0" "$@"
-command -v python3.7 >/dev/null && exec python3.7 "$0" "$@"
-command -v python3.6 >/dev/null && exec python3.6 "$0" "$@"
 command -v python3 >/dev/null && exec python3 "$0" "$@"
 exec python "$0" "$@"
 ''' "$0" "$@"
@@ -25,7 +23,7 @@ except ImportError:
   from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
 
 print('Node.js configure: Found Python {}.{}.{}...'.format(*sys.version_info))
-acceptable_pythons = ((3, 13), (3, 12), (3, 11), (3, 10), (3, 9), (3, 8), (3, 7), (3, 6))
+acceptable_pythons = ((3, 13), (3, 12), (3, 11), (3, 10), (3, 9), (3, 8))
 if sys.version_info[:2] in acceptable_pythons:
   import configure
 else:

configure.py

@@ -2126,7 +2126,7 @@ def make_bin_override():
   if sys.platform == 'win32':
     raise Exception('make_bin_override should not be called on win32.')
   # If the system python is not the python we are running (which should be
-  # python 3), then create a directory with a symlink called `python` to our
+  # python 3.8+), then create a directory with a symlink called `python` to our
   # sys.executable. This directory will be prefixed to the PATH, so that
   # other tools that shell out to `python` will use the appropriate python
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ exclude = [
   "tools/eslint/node_modules",
 ]
 line-length = 172
-target-version = "py37"
+target-version = "py38"
 
 [tool.ruff.lint]
 select = [