Upgrade Python version from 3.8 #331
Description
The eMach conda environment uses Python 3.8.
https://github.com/Severson-Group/eMach/blob/v1.0.x/environment.yml#L6
This is rather old (released about 5 years ago), and is starting to cause issues with compatibility with other packages. Plus, 3.8 has end of support in Oct 2024 (in just a few months).
Let's upgrade eMach to the latest stable Python version! As of now, it is 3.12---see https://www.python.org/downloads/
This would be "easy" to do: just change the conda environment... However, there is no great way to test this for breaking code right now... We should discuss this. Maybe, we need to wait until test infrastructure is in place?