Add python 3.12 to CI (#1886)

* Create requirements-py3.12.yml

* add 3.12 to GH Actions test workflows

* whatsnew

* nix solarfactors

* fix yaml syntax

* increase min scipy to 1.5; update comments

.github/workflows/pytest-remote-data.yml

@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false  # don't cancel other matrix jobs when one fails
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
         suffix: ['']  # the alternative to "-min"
         include:
           - python-version: 3.7

.github/workflows/pytest.yml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false  # don't cancel other matrix jobs when one fails
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest]
-        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: [3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
         environment-type: [conda, bare]
         suffix: ['']  # placeholder as an alternative to "-min"
         include:

ci/requirements-py3.12.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+name: test_env
+channels:
+    - defaults
+    - conda-forge
+dependencies:
+    - coveralls
+    - cython
+    - ephem
+    - h5py
+    # - numba  # not available for 3.12 as of 2023-12-12
+    - numpy >= 1.16.0
+    - pandas >= 0.25.0
+    - pip
+    - pytest
+    - pytest-cov
+    - pytest-mock
+    - requests-mock
+    - pytest-timeout
+    - pytest-rerunfailures
+    - pytest-remotedata
+    - python=3.12
+    - pytz
+    - requests
+    - scipy >= 1.5.0
+    - statsmodels
+    # - pip:
+        # - nrel-pysam>=2.0  # not available for 3.12 as of 2023-12-12
+        # - solarfactors  # required shapely<2 isn't available for 3.12

docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.10.3.rst

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Bug fixes
 Testing
 ~~~~~~~
 * Replace use of deprecated ``pkg_resources``. (:issue:`1881`, :pull:`1882`)
-
+* Added Python 3.12 to test suite. (:pull:`1886`)
 
 Documentation
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~