Merge pull request #725 from googlefonts/drop-py36

drop Python 3.6, require >= 3.7

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
     if: "! contains(toJSON(github.event.commits.*.message), '[skip ci]')"
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.9, 3.6]
+        python-version: [3.9, 3.7]
         platform: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest]
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2

Lib/glyphsLib/glyphdata.py

@@ -94,11 +94,7 @@ def get_glyph(glyph_name, data=None):
     if data is None:
         global GLYPHDATA
         if GLYPHDATA is None:
-            try:
-                from importlib.resources import open_binary
-            except ImportError:
-                # use backport for python < 3.7
-                from importlib_resources import open_binary
+            from importlib.resources import open_binary
 
             GLYPHDATA = GlyphData.from_files(
                 open_binary("glyphsLib.data", "GlyphData.xml"),

README.rst

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 glyphsLib
 =========
 
-This Python 3.6+ library provides a bridge from Glyphs source files (.glyphs) to
+This Python 3.7+ library provides a bridge from Glyphs source files (.glyphs) to
 UFOs and Designspace files via `defcon <https://github.com/typesupply/defcon/>`__ and `designspaceLib <https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools>`__.
 
 The main methods for conversion are found in ``__init__.py``.

setup.cfg

@@ -27,13 +27,12 @@ classifiers =
 package_dir = =Lib
 packages = find:
 include_package_data = True
-python_requires = >=3.6
+python_requires = >=3.7
 setup_requires =
     setuptools_scm
 install_requires =
     ufoLib2 >= 0.6.2
     fonttools[ufo,unicode] >= 4.27.1
-    importlib_resources; python_version < '3.7'
     openstep-plist >= 0.2.2
 
 [options.extras_require]

tox.ini

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = lint, py36, py37, py38, py39, htmlcov
+envlist = lint, py37, py38, py39, htmlcov
 ; if any of the requested python interpreters is unavailable (e.g. on the local dev
 ; workstation), the tests are skipped and tox won't return an error
 skip_missing_interpreters = true