deprecate Python 3.9

[bendichter]

EOL was Oct 31 2025

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[rly]

Thanks for this PR @bendichter ! It looks all good to me. This should be in a minor release. We should also explore adding Python 3.14 support in a separate PR.

[rly]

We'll make a bugfix release imminently and then do a minor release with this PR deprecating python 3.9 shortly after