Drop Python 3.8 support

[PPsyrius]

Proposed change

Drops Python 3.8 support due to its EOL status as of October 7, 2024, upgrades syntax to Python 3.9 standard, and simplifies requirements/tests.txt for numpy.

Type of change

• New country/market holidays support (thank you!)
• Supported country/market holidays update (calendar discrepancy fix, localization)
• Existing code/documentation/test/process quality improvement (best practice, cleanup, refactoring, optimization)
• Dependency update (version deprecation/pin/upgrade)
• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Breaking change (a code change causing existing functionality to break)
• New feature (new holidays functionality in general)

Checklist

• I've followed the contributing guidelines
• I've run make pre-commit, it didn't generate any changes
• I've run make test, all tests passed locally

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
4 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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[arkid15r]

Looks safe :)