⚡️Compatibility with python 3.8 and above versions

[mansouralawi]

Description

We have identified that those two methods (str.removeprefix and ast.unparse) stop us from supporting python versions < 3.9. the current changes add support for python versions > 3.8.

AST parsing differences between different Python versions:

• Python 3.7
• Python 3.8
• Python 3.9

What is preventing Xircuits from running on Python 3.7 is the missing of end_lineno and end_col_offset from the AST parse.

References

this PR is based on an older PR #87

Pull Request Type

• Xircuits Core (Jupyterlab Related changes)
• Xircuits Canvas (Custom RD Related changes)
• Xircuits Component Library
• Testing Automation
• Documentation
• Others (Please Specify)

Type of Change

• Refactoring
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• This change requires a documentation update

Tests

• Manual test for same Xircuits behaviour and features as before:

  1. Clone Xircuits
  2. Build Xircuits with python 3.8
  3. Run Xircuits
  4. Check if the components library (side bar) exist,
  5. Run a workflow
  6. Repeat with python versions 3.9 , 3.10 & 3.11

Tested on?

• Windows
• Linux Ubuntu
• Centos
• Mac
• Others (State here -> xxx )

Notes

Add if any.

[MFA-X-AI]

Thanks for the PR!
Having more python version reports are definitely important. Glad to know 3.10+ is also compatible with the current build.
During testing, I think there's still a print statement.

Name(id='any', ctx=Load())
Name(id='any', ctx=Load())

I've also noticed that we may need to take the

Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getOptions')

bug in a higher priority. It triggered when I was creating the wheel for 3.8, then trying the component drop feature.

It is not related to this PR I believe, as it also triggers when building without a package-lock.json. As per @AdrySky's comment, it may be that one of our jupyterlab packages are no longer compatible with RD. Will need further investigation before merging.

[mansouralawi]

Thank you for your review.

I have removed the print statement.

Noted on the build issue, I will be waiting for an update on that to re-test this PR build again.

[MFA-X-AI]

with bugfix #162, I can verify that things work out nicely.
Built the wheel using 3.8, installed the wheel.
Components are correctly rendered and I can run simple components in the template library. Great work!