Python 3.6 client support
I've spent a lot of time with OpenAPI in the last month. Our product used swagger for many years to both document our rest interface and generate a python (2.7) client for customers and internal uses.
It's time to upgrade - has been for some time now.
However, our product is essentially an appliance that runs on a hardened Linux platform. Most of those support python 3.6 - period. Ok, yes, you can get 3.11 installed, but it's not the default python on the system.
I find it hard to believe the openapi community could have seen it as a good idea to jump from python2.7 (swagger 1.5) directly to python 3.7+ (openapi 3.1) without even a thought for all those enterprise applications whose main python version is still 3.6 (rocky 8/9).
Am I missing something? How do I generate a python client that takes full advantage of python 3 (ahem, enums) without sacrificing the ability to run on common enterprise Linux platforms?
I'm now considering pulling the source code for openapi generator and building my own python 3.6 compatible client generator.
Help me Obiwan Kenobi - you're my only hope!