Drop compatibility for unsupported Python Version (#147)

Drop compatibility for unsupported Python Version (8.0.3)
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Co-authored-by: Viicos <65306057+Viicos@users.noreply.github.com>

Author: un33k

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-## Work in progress
+## 8.0.3
+
+- Drop compatibility for unsupported Python Version (@Viicos - thx)
+- Fix pattern types. 
 
 ## 8.0.2
 

slugify/__main__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import, annotations, print_function
+from __future__ import annotations
 
 import argparse
 import sys

slugify/__version__.py

@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 __url__ = 'https://github.com/un33k/python-slugify'
 __license__ = 'MIT'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2022 Val Neekman @ Neekware Inc.'
-__version__ = '8.0.2'
+__version__ = '8.0.3'

slugify/slugify.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import re
-import sys
 import unicodedata
 from collections.abc import Iterable
 from html.entities import name2codepoint
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ def slugify(
     separator: str = DEFAULT_SEPARATOR,
     save_order: bool = False,
     stopwords: Iterable[str] = (),
-    regex_pattern: str | None = None,
+    regex_pattern: re.Pattern[str] | str | None = None,
     lowercase: bool = True,
     replacements: Iterable[Iterable[str]] = (),
     allow_unicode: bool = False,
@@ -153,9 +152,6 @@ def slugify(
     else:
         text = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', text)
 
-    if sys.version_info < (3,):
-        text = text.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
-
     # make the text lowercase (optional)
     if lowercase:
         text = text.lower()