Increase chardet upper limit to 8

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: 2 people

pyproject.toml

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Source = "https://github.com/psf/requests"
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 security = []
 socks = ["PySocks>=1.5.6, !=1.5.7"]
-use_chardet_on_py3 = ["chardet>=3.0.2,<7"]
+use_chardet_on_py3 = ["chardet>=3.0.2,<8"]
 test = [
     "pytest-httpbin==2.1.0",
     "pytest-cov",

src/requests/__init__.py

@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ def check_compatibility(urllib3_version, chardet_version, charset_normalizer_ver
     if chardet_version:
         major, minor, patch = chardet_version.split(".")[:3]
         major, minor, patch = int(major), int(minor), int(patch)
-        # chardet_version >= 3.0.2, < 6.0.0
-        assert (3, 0, 2) <= (major, minor, patch) < (7, 0, 0)
+        # chardet_version >= 3.0.2, < 8.0.0
+        assert (3, 0, 2) <= (major, minor, patch) < (8, 0, 0)
     elif charset_normalizer_version:
         major, minor, patch = charset_normalizer_version.split(".")[:3]
         major, minor, patch = int(major), int(minor), int(patch)