Add support for python 3.10.x

[Rob Dimsdale-Zucker]

Python 3.10.x is available on the dep server - we should add support for it to this buildpack.

3.10.2

  {
    "name": "python",
    "version": "3.10.2",
    "sha256": "7ae1fb92a9238571466d66b0a22cafa20e6cdb45816ebe476499a1f6bc9f11ef",
    "uri": "https://deps.paketo.io/python/python_3.10.2_linux_x64_bionic_7ae1fb92.tgz",
    "stacks": [
      {
        "id": "io.buildpacks.stacks.bionic"
      }
    ],
    "source": "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.2/Python-3.10.2.tgz",
    "source_sha256": "3c0ede893011319f9b0a56b44953a3d52c7abf9657c23fb4bc9ced93b86e9c97",
    "deprecation_date": "2026-10-01T00:00:00Z",
    "created_at": "2022-01-14T22:15:25+00:00",
    "modified_at": "2022-01-14T22:15:25+00:00",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.10.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "purl": "pkg:generic/python@3.10.2?checksum=3c0ede893011319f9b0a56b44953a3d52c7abf9657c23fb4bc9ced93b86e9c97&download_url=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.2/Python-3.10.2.tgz",
    "licenses": [
      "0BSD",
      "CNRI-Python-GPL-Compatible"
    ]
  },

3.10.1

  {
    "name": "python",
    "version": "3.10.1",
    "sha256": "48a90f8cee9950491fb815fc73a0529cfbafad2cd14fd08674adaaaae072ec39",
    "uri": "https://deps.paketo.io/python/python_3.10.1_linux_x64_bionic_48a90f8c.tgz",
    "stacks": [
      {
        "id": "io.buildpacks.stacks.bionic"
      }
    ],
    "source": "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.1/Python-3.10.1.tgz",
    "source_sha256": "b76117670e7c5064344b9c138e141a377e686b9063f3a8a620ff674fa8ec90d3",
    "deprecation_date": "2026-10-01T00:00:00Z",
    "created_at": "2021-12-06T21:13:38+00:00",
    "modified_at": "2022-01-24T16:56:37+00:00",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:python:python:3.10.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "purl": "pkg:generic/python@3.10.1?checksum=b76117670e7c5064344b9c138e141a377e686b9063f3a8a620ff674fa8ec90d3&download_url=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.10.1/Python-3.10.1.tgz",
    "licenses": [
      "0BSD",
      "CNRI-Python-GPL-Compatible"
    ]
  },

[Rob Dimsdale-Zucker]

@thitch97 do you know why we don't yet support this? Any reason for us not to go ahead and add it?

[Arjun Sreedharan]

Also, It seems like 3.6 just went out of support as of last month (2021-12-23) https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/#lifespan. So great time to swap in 3.10 for 3.6!

[Sophie Wigmore]

Hey! I did a preliminary exploration into this. Check out my findings which I summarized in this comment. I think we can compile it with --disable-test-modules possibly, reducing the size of the dependency, but wanted general 3.10 support first.