feat:  Drop miniimum python version to 3.10- earlier verions out of support

### Summary

Drop 3.8 support

### Use case and motivation

https://devguide.python.org/versions/ shows that 3.8, 3.9 are no longer supported.  New features to python were introduced in later versions.  We should retire pre 3.10 versions.

### Proposed behaviour

Minimum version 3.10.

### Disc image or format details

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### References

https://devguide.python.org/versions/