Drop support for EOL Python 3.6

pyproject.toml

@@ -111,4 +111,4 @@ template = "changelog/_template.rst"
   showcontent = true
 
 [tool.black]
-target-version = ['py36']
+target-version = ['py37']

src/_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py

@@ -100,9 +100,6 @@ class AssertionRewritingHook(importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder, importlib.abc.Loader)
             spec is None
             # this is a namespace package (without `__init__.py`)
             # there's nothing to rewrite there
-            # python3.6: `namespace`
-            # python3.7+: `None`
-            or spec.origin == "namespace"
             or spec.origin is None
             # we can only rewrite source files
             or not isinstance(spec.loader, importlib.machinery.SourceFileLoader)

src/_pytest/capture.py

@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ def _colorama_workaround() -> None:
             pass
 
 
-def _py36_windowsconsoleio_workaround(stream: TextIO) -> None:
+def _windowsconsoleio_workaround(stream: TextIO) -> None:
-    """Workaround for Windows Unicode console handling on Python>=3.6.
+    """Workaround for Windows Unicode console handling.
 
     Python 3.6 implemented Unicode console handling for Windows. This works
     by reading/writing to the raw console handle using
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def _py36_windowsconsoleio_workaround(stream: TextIO) -> None:
 def pytest_load_initial_conftests(early_config: Config):
     ns = early_config.known_args_namespace
     if ns.capture == "fd":
-        _py36_windowsconsoleio_workaround(sys.stdout)
+        _windowsconsoleio_workaround(sys.stdout)
     _colorama_workaround()
     pluginmanager = early_config.pluginmanager
     capman = CaptureManager(ns.capture)

src/_pytest/python.py

@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ class PyCollector(PyobjMixin, nodes.Collector):
             for basecls in self.obj.__mro__:
                 dicts.append(basecls.__dict__)
 
-        # In each class, nodes should be definition ordered. Since Python 3.6,
+        # In each class, nodes should be definition ordered.
         # __dict__ is definition ordered.
         seen: Set[str] = set()
         dict_values: List[List[Union[nodes.Item, nodes.Collector]]] = []
@@ -894,8 +894,6 @@ class InstanceDummy:
     pass
 
 
-# Note: module __getattr__ only works on Python>=3.7. Unfortunately
-# we can't provide this deprecation warning on Python 3.6.
 def __getattr__(name: str) -> object:
     if name == "Instance":
         warnings.warn(INSTANCE_COLLECTOR, 2)

testing/deprecated_test.py

@@ -234,10 +234,6 @@ def test_node_ctor_fspath_argument_is_deprecated(pytester: Pytester) -> None:
         )
 
 
-@pytest.mark.skipif(
-    sys.version_info < (3, 7),
-    reason="This deprecation can only be emitted on python>=3.7",
-)
 def test_importing_instance_is_deprecated(pytester: Pytester) -> None:
     with pytest.warns(
         pytest.PytestDeprecationWarning,

testing/test_assertrewrite.py

@@ -1123,9 +1123,6 @@ class TestAssertionRewriteHookDetails:
 
         assert _read_pyc(source, pyc) is None  # no error
 
-    @pytest.mark.skipif(
-        sys.version_info < (3, 7), reason="Only the Python 3.7 format for simplicity"
-    )
     def test_read_pyc_more_invalid(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
         from _pytest.assertion.rewrite import _read_pyc
 

testing/test_capture.py

@@ -1433,19 +1433,19 @@ def test_error_attribute_issue555(pytester: Pytester) -> None:
     not sys.platform.startswith("win"),
     reason="only on windows",
 )
-def test_py36_windowsconsoleio_workaround_non_standard_streams() -> None:
+def test_windowsconsoleio_workaround_non_standard_streams() -> None:
     """
-    Ensure _py36_windowsconsoleio_workaround function works with objects that
+    Ensure _windowsconsoleio_workaround function works with objects that
     do not implement the full ``io``-based stream protocol, for example execnet channels (#2666).
     """
-    from _pytest.capture import _py36_windowsconsoleio_workaround
+    from _pytest.capture import _windowsconsoleio_workaround
 
     class DummyStream:
         def write(self, s):
             pass
 
     stream = cast(TextIO, DummyStream())
-    _py36_windowsconsoleio_workaround(stream)
+    _windowsconsoleio_workaround(stream)
 
 
 def test_dontreadfrominput_has_encoding(pytester: Pytester) -> None:

testing/test_compat.py

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ def test_is_generator_async_gen_syntax(pytester: Pytester) -> None:
     pytester.makepyfile(
         """
         from _pytest.compat import is_generator
-        def test_is_generator_py36():
+        def test_is_generator():
             async def foo():
                 yield
                 await foo()

testing/test_error_diffs.py

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ Tests and examples for correct "+/-" usage in error diffs.
 See https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/3333 for details.
 
 """
-import sys
-
 import pytest
 from _pytest.pytester import Pytester
 
@@ -210,10 +208,6 @@ TESTCASES = [
         """,
         id='Test "not in" string',
     ),
-]
-if sys.version_info[:2] >= (3, 7):
-    TESTCASES.extend(
-        [
     pytest.param(
         """
         from dataclasses import dataclass
@@ -271,7 +265,6 @@ if sys.version_info[:2] >= (3, 7):
         id="Compare attrs classes",
     ),
 ]
-    )
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("code, expected", TESTCASES)

testing/test_pathlib.py

@@ -450,7 +450,6 @@ def test_samefile_false_negatives(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> N
 
 
 class TestImportLibMode:
-    @pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info < (3, 7), reason="Dataclasses in Python3.7+")
     def test_importmode_importlib_with_dataclass(self, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
         """Ensure that importlib mode works with a module containing dataclasses (#7856)."""
         fn = tmp_path.joinpath("_src/tests/test_dataclass.py")