Requested Feature

Sopel should support Python 3.13 when possible. 3.13 entered beta on 7 May and is now feature complete, so it's a good time to start tracking what's needed for support. 3.13.0 final is scheduled for October 2024, and release candidates are scheduled for late July and early September.

Problems Solved

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Alternatives

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Notes

Known problems:

• required setuptools version needs to be updated to 66.0 or higher (usage of deprecated pkgutil.ImpImporter by setuptools.version) done in Add Python 3.12 support #2516
• greenlet (required by SQLAlchemy) does not yet support Python 3.13 (issue)
  • There is a PR to add support, but I can't build it against 3.13.0b1: Fix #392: Port to Python 3.13 python-greenlet/greenlet#396
  • Fixed in greenlet 3.1.0: Fix #392: Port to Python 3.13 python-greenlet/greenlet#396