merging v0.8.0 branch

- finally using libxml2 parser in beautifulsoup/lxml
- minor bug in parsing the CCC field (qrz.com)
- fixed VK9XX fixture (lat/long)
- added support for python 3.10 and 3.11, pypy3.7-3.9
- removed support for python 3.4
- fixed escapings in regular expressions
- replaced exefile from past.buildins with custom function

docs/source/changelog.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,21 @@
 Changelog
 ---------
 
+PyHamtools 0.8.0
+================
+
+05. December 2022
+
+* Finally switched to XML parser in BeautifulSoup for qrz.com (requires libxml2-dev and libxslt-dev packages!)
+* Fixed minor bug in parsing the CCC field of qrz.com XML messages
+* Fixed VK9XX test fixture (Latitude & Longitude)
+* Added support for CPython 3.10 and 3.11
+* Added support for PyPy 3.7, 3.8, 3.9
+* Dropped support for Python 3.4
+* Fixed regular expression escapings which were marked as deprecated (since Python 3.6)
+* Replaced legacy execfile function in test package to remove the deprecation warning about 'imp'
+
+
 PyHamtools 0.7.10
 ================
 

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ sys.path.insert(0,"/Users/user/projects/pyhamtools/pyhamtools")
 # ones.
 extensions = [
     'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
-    'sphinxcontrib.napoleon',
+    'sphinx.ext.napoleon',
 ]
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.