Python 3.10+ compatibility

[ghost]

Thanks for your great work on this project. My team are trying to make the most of it but running into snags with the dependencies since they are not compatible with modern versions of python.

I hope you consider the pull request below to rectify this problem.

Thanks

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Problem statement

Poetry builds for newer versions of python fail owing to PEP 517 build rules and unsupported versions of certain libraries. This makes this project very difficult to install in more modern environments with newer co-dependencies.

Change summary

It took quite a bit of trial and error but this PR is what I came up with to solve this problem by making the requirements more dynamic and making the versions more dependent on the specific version of python being used - with a couple of exceptions listed below:

• removing and replacing the lock file.
• numpy >1.22 -> this change was made because the project readme claims to support only python 3.8+, but numpy versions < 1.22 are not compatible with higher versions of python thus this must be bumped to 1.22 altogether.
• pyyaml >= 6.0.0 -> New major version of pyyaml required to not break builds using python 3.10+. This change required a very minor code change in the load method used in one of the unit tests, so overall must be bumped to 6.0

tests

• Tested poetry install and poetry run python -m unittest in python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11. All are passing.

[scuervo91]

Thank you very much for contributing to the Repo