remove 3.7 from the matrix

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+name: Release to PyPI
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types:
+      - published
+
+jobs:
+  publish-to-pypi:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      id-token: write
+
+
+    steps:
+      # Checkout the repository
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      # Set up Python
+      - name: Setup uv
+        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v6
+        with:
+          version: "0.7.8"
+          enable-cache: true
+          cache-dependency-glob: |
+            pyproject.toml
+
+      - name: Build package distributions
+        run: uv build
+
+      # Publish to PyPI
+      - name: Publish package distributions to PyPI
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
+        with:
+          repository-url: https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
+

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-name: Code Quality Checks
+name: Lint/Test
 
 on:
   push:
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13]
+        python-version: ["3.8", "3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"]
 
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run pytest
         run: uv run python -m pytest --cov=python_cayennelpp tests/ --cov-report=xml
 
-      - name: Code ./coverage1.xml
+      - name: Code Coverage
         uses: codecov/codecov-action@v5
         with:
           token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }}

README.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ Open-source library for python to decode CayenneLPP format payload.
 The Cayenne Low Power Payload (LPP) provides a convenient and easy way to send data over LPWAN networks such as LoRaWAN.
 More details on CayenneLPP payload: https://github.com/myDevicesIoT/cayenne-docs
 
+> Note: while Python versions 2.7 and <=3.7 may work, they're not officially supported since they're EOL.
+
 ## Installation
 
 To install the package use next pip command
@@ -23,6 +25,7 @@ To decode payload simply use method decode() from this package
 >>>print(decode('03670110056700FF'))
 [{'channel': 3, 'name': 'Temperature Sensor', 'value': 27.2}, {'channel': 5, 'name': 'Temperature Sensor', 'value': 25.5}]
 ```
+
 ## Additional info
 The package may raise following exceptions:
 - `TypeError` - if the provided data is not of the `str` type

pyproject.toml

@@ -42,3 +42,8 @@ dev = [
     "ruff>=0.11.12",
 ]
 
+[[tool.uv.index]]
+name = "testpypi"
+url = "https://test.pypi.org/simple/"
+publish-url = "https://test.pypi.org/legacy/"
+explicit = true

python_cayennelpp/__init__.py

@@ -1 +1,3 @@
 """Python CayenneLPP decoder library."""
+
+__version__ = "0.0.5"

python_cayennelpp/decoder.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """Main decoder for CayenneLPP payload format."""
 
 import logging
-from typing import Any
+from typing import Any, Dict, List
 from python_cayennelpp.methods import hex_library
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def decode(payload: str):
         )
     # parsing payload using hex_library.
     # variable pointer represents caret in line to cut. result is returned result
-    result: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
+    result: List[Dict[str, Any]] = []
     pointer = 0
     try:
         while pointer < len(payload):

python_cayennelpp/methods.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """This module contains methods to decode CayenneLPP sensor data."""
 
-from typing import Any
+from typing import Any, Dict
 
 
 def hex_to_int(hex_string: str, signed: bool = True):
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ def gps_location(data: str):
     }
 
 
-hex_library: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {
+hex_library: Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]] = {
     "00": {
         "name": "Digital Input",
         "size": 2,