Add testing for Python 3.9 (#19261)

6 files changed, 16 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux_build_tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/linux_build_tests.yaml
index 8cb0adb3b0..0a2946f63f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linux_build_tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linux_build_tests.yaml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ jobs:
           ccache-build-${{ matrix.package }}
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install System Packages
       run: |
         sudo apt-get update
diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux_unit_tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/linux_unit_tests.yaml
index cf5d8660c2..181bca36a1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linux_unit_tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linux_unit_tests.yaml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: [2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8]
+        python-version: [2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9]
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ jobs:
         fetch-depth: 0
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install System packages
       run: |
           sudo apt-get -y update
diff --git a/.github/workflows/macos_python.yml b/.github/workflows/macos_python.yml
index 5ccc84b119..90e6fb44bd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/macos_python.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/macos_python.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: spack install
       run: |
         . .github/workflows/install_spack.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: spack install
       run: |
         . .github/workflows/install_spack.sh
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: spack install
       run: |
         . .github/workflows/install_spack.sh
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: spack install
       run: |
         . .github/workflows/install_spack.sh
diff --git a/.github/workflows/macos_unit_tests.yaml b/.github/workflows/macos_unit_tests.yaml
index 24affa8327..b8a9f6617c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/macos_unit_tests.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/macos_unit_tests.yaml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
         fetch-depth: 0
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install Python packages
       run: |
           pip install --upgrade pip six setuptools
diff --git a/.github/workflows/style_and_docs.yaml b/.github/workflows/style_and_docs.yaml
index 84eb0efeab..5abedab784 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/style_and_docs.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/style_and_docs.yaml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install Python Packages
       run: |
         pip install --upgrade pip
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
         fetch-depth: 0
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install Python packages
       run: |
         pip install --upgrade pip six setuptools flake8
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
     - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
       with:
-        python-version: 3.8
+        python-version: 3.9
     - name: Install System packages
       run: |
         sudo apt-get -y update
diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst
index f9e6c0fa57..569e5b94d2 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Prerequisites
 Spack has the following minimum requirements, which must be installed
 before Spack is run:
 
-#. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.5 - 3.8) to run Spack
+#. Python 2 (2.6 or 2.7) or 3 (3.5 - 3.9) to run Spack
 #. A C/C++ compiler for building
 #. The ``make`` executable for building
 #. The ``tar``, ``gzip``, ``bzip2``, ``xz`` and optionally ``zstd``
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ before Spack is run:
 #. If using the ``gpg`` subcommand, ``gnupg2`` is required
 
 These requirements can be easily installed on most modern Linux systems;
-on Macintosh, XCode is required.  Spack is designed to run on HPC
-platforms like Cray and BlueGene/Q.  Not all packages should be expected
+on macOS, XCode is required.  Spack is designed to run on HPC
+platforms like Cray.  Not all packages should be expected
 to work on all platforms.  A build matrix showing which packages are
 working on which systems is planned but not yet available.
 
@@ -53,12 +53,12 @@ in the ``SPACK_ROOT`` environment variable.  Add ``$SPACK_ROOT/bin``
 to your path and you're ready to go:
 
 .. code-block:: console
-   
+
    # For bash/zsh users
    $ export SPACK_ROOT=/path/to/spack
    $ export PATH=$SPACK_ROOT/bin:$PATH
 
-   # For tsch/csh users 
+   # For tsch/csh users
    $ setenv SPACK_ROOT /path/to/spack
    $ setenv PATH $SPACK_ROOT/bin:$PATH