AAP-88824 Drop Python 3.11 references from Makefile

[AlanCoding]

Summary

• Remove python3.11 from the PYTHON discovery fallback chain in Makefile (3.12 is already first, python3 is the catch-all)
• Update ansible-test version comment to reflect 3.12+ only

Dockerfile.dev, Dockerfile.j2 template, and CI workflows were already on 3.12+. This cleans up the last two 3.11 references.

Test plan

• Verify make still finds python correctly on dev machines
• Verify CI passes (no 3.11 matrix entries existed)

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Compatibility

  • Updated Python discovery to prioritize Python 3.12, with fallback support for the system’s default Python 3 installation.
  • Removed automatic selection of Python 3.11.

• Documentation

  • Clarified that ansible-test supports Python 3.12 and Python 3.13.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug, Docs Fix or other nominal change

COMPONENT NAME

• API

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Makefile now checks python3.12 and python3 for Python discovery. Its ansible-test documentation lists Python 3.12 and 3.13 as supported versions.

Changes

Python version support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Python discovery and support documentation Makefile	Python discovery no longer checks python3.11. The ansible-test comment lists Python 3.12 and 3.13.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 99f32

The Makefile may select a default python3 executable running Python 3.11 or older when Python 3.12 is unavailable, causing development commands to run with an unsupported interpreter. Version validation or an equivalent safeguard is needed before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: removing Python 3.11 references from the Makefile.

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Inline comments:
In `@Makefile`:
- Line 3: Update the PYTHON selection logic to validate each candidate’s
sys.version_info against the supported interpreter version before selecting it,
rather than accepting any executable named python3. Keep python3.12 as the
preferred candidate, reject unsupported interpreters, and fail clearly when no
valid candidate is available.

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[AlanCoding]

To support

ansible/django-ansible-base#1108

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

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