🔥 Remove support for Python 3.5 (#192)

Initial support removal and some cleanup are required afterward.

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ jobs:
         isort --check charset_normalizer
     - name: Code format (Black)
       run: |
-        black --check --diff --target-version=py35 charset_normalizer
+        black --check --diff --target-version=py36 charset_normalizer
     - name: Style guide enforcement (Flake8)
       run: |
         flake8 charset_normalizer

.github/workflows/python-publish.yml

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [ 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10" ]
+        python-version: [ 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10" ]
         os: [ ubuntu-latest ]
 
     steps:

.github/workflows/run-tests.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ jobs:
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python-version: [3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11-dev"]
+        python-version: [3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, "3.10", "3.11-dev"]
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
 
     steps:

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,11 +5,15 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 ## [2.1.0.dev0](https://github.com/Ousret/charset_normalizer/compare/2.0.12...master) (2022-??-??)
 
 ### Changed
-- Re-use decoded buffer for single byte character sets (PR #175)
+- Re-use decoded buffer for single byte character sets from [@nijel](https://github.com/nijel) (PR #175)
+- Fixing some performance bottlenecks from [@deedy5](https://github.com/deedy5) (PR #183)
 
 ### Fixed
 - Workaround potential bug in cpython with Zero Width No-Break Space located in Arabic Presentation Forms-B, Unicode 1.1 not acknowledged as space (PR #175)
 
+### Removed
+- Support for Python 3.5 (PR #192)
+
 ## [2.0.12](https://github.com/Ousret/charset_normalizer/compare/2.0.11...2.0.12) (2022-02-12)
 
 ### Fixed

charset_normalizer/api.py

@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 import logging
+from os import PathLike
 from os.path import basename, splitext
 from typing import BinaryIO, List, Optional, Set
 
-try:
-    from os import PathLike
-except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
-    PathLike = str  # type: ignore
-
 from .cd import (
     coherence_ratio,
     encoding_languages,