pre-commit is not running on Python 3.12

[makermelissa]

Github Actions switch to Python 3.12 today and now workflows fail. I opened an issue with pre-commit here: pre-commit/pre-commit#3041

For the time being, we should probably lock it to python 3.11 until the issue is resolved.

[makermelissa]

Ok, they closed it saying virtualenv is too old. It sounds like the real fix is to start using venv now.

[dhalbert]

It is not clear to me where we are using virtualenv instead of venv. I'd like to open up a different specific issue for that if that's a change to make.

[makermelissa]

Not fixed yet. It's still failing because https://github.com/adafruit/workflows-circuitpython-libs/blob/main/build/action.yml is on 3.x.

[dhalbert]

It appears this problem goes away if we install the latest pre-commit with Python 3.12 and use a recent pylint. Pylint is pinned to v2.17.4 in a lot of .pre-commit-config.yaml files. I made it v3.1.0, and then everything worked on my newly updated Ubuntu 24.04 system, using latest pre-commit from pypi and letting pypi pick up everything else from pypi.