[build] re-introduce support for Python 3.7

saulpw · Oct 9, 2023 · 2f7a50c · 2f7a50c
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11"]
 
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 20

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
       long_description=open('README.md').read(),
       long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
       author='Saul Pwanson',
-      python_requires='>=3.8',
+      python_requires='>=3.7',
       author_email='visidata@saul.pw',
       url='https://visidata.org',
       download_url='https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/tarball/' + __version__,

diff --git a/visidata/aggregators.py b/visidata/aggregators.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import sys
 import math
 import functools
 import collections
@@ -90,9 +91,12 @@ def mean(vals):
     if vals:
         return float(sum(vals))/len(vals)
 
-def vsum(vals):
+def _vsum(vals):
     return sum(vals, start=type(vals[0] if len(vals) else 0)())  #1996
 
+# start parameter in sum() added in Python 3.8
+vsum = _vsum if sys.version_info[:2] >= (3, 8) else sum
+
 # http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511478-finding-the-percentile-of-the-values/
 def _percentile(N, percent, key=lambda x:x):
     """