diff --git a/.github/workflows/self-hosted.yml b/.github/workflows/self-hosted.yml
index c5343a58..eef8836b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/self-hosted.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/self-hosted.yml
@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           base: ${{ github.ref }}
           filters: |
-            python/3.8/focal: 'python/3.8/focal/**'
-            python/3.8/slim-focal: 'python/3.8/slim-focal/**'
-            python/3.8/jammy: 'python/3.8/jammy/**'
-            python/3.8/slim-jammy: 'python/3.8/slim-jammy/**'
             python/3.9/focal: 'python/3.9/focal/**'
             python/3.9/slim-focal: 'python/3.9/slim-focal/**'
             python/3.9/jammy: 'python/3.9/jammy/**'
diff --git a/python/3.8/focal/Containerfile b/python/3.8/focal/Containerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a0b2059..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/focal/Containerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=docker.io/polymathrobotics/buildpack-deps:focal
-# hadolint ignore=DL3006
-FROM $BASE_IMAGE
-
-# ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
-ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
-
-# cannot remove LANG even though https://bugs.python.org/issue19846 is fixed
-# last attempted removal of LANG broke many users:
-# https://github.com/docker-library/python/pull/570
-ENV LANG C.UTF-8
-
-# runtime dependencies
-RUN set -eux; \
-	apt-get update; \
-	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-		libbluetooth-dev \
-		tk-dev \
-		uuid-dev \
-	; \
-	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-ENV GPG_KEY E3FF2839C048B25C084DEBE9B26995E310250568
-ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.8.20
-
-SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
-# hadolint ignore=DL3003,DL3013,SC2015
-RUN set -eux; \
-	\
-	curl -fsSL -o python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz"; \
-	curl -fsSL -o python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc"; \
-	GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; export GNUPGHOME; \
-	gpg --batch --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY"; \
-	gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz; \
-	gpgconf --kill all; \
-	rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc; \
-	mkdir -p /usr/src/python; \
-	tar --extract --directory /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 --file python.tar.xz; \
-	rm python.tar.xz; \
-	\
-	cd /usr/src/python; \
-	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
-	./configure \
-		--build="$gnuArch" \
-		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
-		--enable-optimizations \
-		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
-		--enable-shared \
-		--with-system-expat \
-		--with-ensurepip \
-	; \
-	nproc="$(nproc)"; \
-	EXTRA_CFLAGS="$(dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS)"; \
-	LDFLAGS="$(dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS)"; \
-	make -j "$nproc" \
-		"EXTRA_CFLAGS=${EXTRA_CFLAGS:-}" \
-		"LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS:-}" \
-		"PROFILE_TASK=${PROFILE_TASK:-}" \
-	; \
-# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/784
-# prevent accidental usage of a system installed libpython of the same version
-	rm python; \
-	make -j "$nproc" \
-		"EXTRA_CFLAGS=${EXTRA_CFLAGS:-}" \
-		"LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS:--Wl},-rpath='\$\$ORIGIN/../lib'" \
-		"PROFILE_TASK=${PROFILE_TASK:-}" \
-		python \
-	; \
-	make install; \
-	\
-# enable GDB to load debugging data: https://github.com/docker-library/python/pull/701
-	bin="$(readlink -ve /usr/local/bin/python3)"; \
-	dir="$(dirname "$bin")"; \
-	mkdir -p "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/$dir"; \
-	cp -vL Tools/gdb/libpython.py "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/$bin-gdb.py"; \
-	\
-	cd /; \
-	rm -rf /usr/src/python; \
-	\
-	find /usr/local -depth \
-		\( \
-			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests -o -name idle_test \) \) \
-			-o \( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' -o -name 'libpython*.a' \) \) \
-			-o \( -type f -a -name 'wininst-*.exe' \) \
-		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
-	; \
-	\
-	ldconfig; \
-	\
-	export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1; \
-	python3 --version; \
-	\
-	pip3 install \
-		--disable-pip-version-check \
-		--no-cache-dir \
-		--no-compile \
-		'setuptools==57.5.0' \
-		wheel \
-	; \
-	pip3 --version
-
-# make some useful symlinks that are expected to exist ("/usr/local/bin/python" and friends)
-RUN set -eux; \
-	for src in idle3 pip3 pydoc3 python3 python3-config; do \
-		dst="$(echo "$src" | tr -d 3)"; \
-		[ -s "/usr/local/bin/$src" ]; \
-		[ ! -e "/usr/local/bin/$dst" ]; \
-		ln -svT "$src" "/usr/local/bin/$dst"; \
-	done
-
-CMD ["python3"]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/3.8/focal/docker-bake.hcl b/python/3.8/focal/docker-bake.hcl
deleted file mode 100644
index 0bcf53c5..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/focal/docker-bake.hcl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-variable "TAG_PREFIX" {
-  default = "docker.io/polymathrobotics/python"
-}
-
-variable "VERSION" {
-  default = "3.8.20"
-}
-
-# There's no darwin-based Docker, so if we're running on macOS, change the platform to linux
-variable "LOCAL_PLATFORM" {
-  default = regex_replace("${BAKE_LOCAL_PLATFORM}", "^(darwin)", "linux")
-}
-
-target "_common" {
-  dockerfile = "Containerfile"
-  tags = [
-    "${TAG_PREFIX}:${VERSION}-focal",
-    "${TAG_PREFIX}:${join(".", slice(split(".", "${VERSION}"), 0, 2))}-focal",
-  ]
-  labels = {
-    "org.opencontainers.image.source" = "https://github.com/polymathrobotics/oci"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.licenses" = "Apache-2.0"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.description" = "Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, open-source programming language."
-    "org.opencontainers.image.title" = "${TAG_PREFIX}"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.created" = "${timestamp()}"
-    "dev.polymathrobotics.image.readme-filepath" = "python/README.md"
-  }
-}
-
-target "local" {
-  inherits = ["_common"]
-  platforms = ["${LOCAL_PLATFORM}"]
-}
-
-target "default" {
-  inherits = ["_common"]
-  platforms = ["linux/amd64", "linux/arm64/v8"]
-} 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/3.8/focal/test/controls/python.rb b/python/3.8/focal/test/controls/python.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 2077bd77..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/focal/test/controls/python.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-describe command('python3') do
-  it { should exist }
-end
diff --git a/python/3.8/jammy/Containerfile b/python/3.8/jammy/Containerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index b28c13a9..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/jammy/Containerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=docker.io/polymathrobotics/buildpack-deps:jammy
-# hadolint ignore=DL3006
-FROM $BASE_IMAGE
-
-# ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
-ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
-
-# cannot remove LANG even though https://bugs.python.org/issue19846 is fixed
-# last attempted removal of LANG broke many users:
-# https://github.com/docker-library/python/pull/570
-ENV LANG C.UTF-8
-
-# runtime dependencies
-RUN set -eux; \
-	apt-get update; \
-	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-		libbluetooth-dev \
-		tk-dev \
-		uuid-dev \
-	; \
-	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-ENV GPG_KEY E3FF2839C048B25C084DEBE9B26995E310250568
-ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.8.20
-
-SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
-# hadolint ignore=DL3003,DL3013
-RUN set -eux; \
-	\
-	curl -fsSL -o python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz"; \
-	curl -fsSL -o python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc"; \
-	GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; export GNUPGHOME; \
-	gpg --batch --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY"; \
-	gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz; \
-	gpgconf --kill all; \
-	rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc; \
-	mkdir -p /usr/src/python; \
-	tar --extract --directory /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 --file python.tar.xz; \
-	rm python.tar.xz; \
-	\
-	cd /usr/src/python; \
-	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
-	./configure \
-		--build="$gnuArch" \
-		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
-		--enable-optimizations \
-		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
-		--enable-shared \
-		--with-system-expat \
-		--with-ensurepip \
-	; \
-	nproc="$(nproc)"; \
-	EXTRA_CFLAGS="$(dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS)"; \
-	LDFLAGS="$(dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS)"; \
-	make -j "$nproc" \
-		"EXTRA_CFLAGS=${EXTRA_CFLAGS:-}" \
-		"LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS:-}" \
-		"PROFILE_TASK=${PROFILE_TASK:-}" \
-	; \
-# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/784
-# prevent accidental usage of a system installed libpython of the same version
-	rm python; \
-	make -j "$nproc" \
-		"EXTRA_CFLAGS=${EXTRA_CFLAGS:-}" \
-		"LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS:--Wl},-rpath='\$\$ORIGIN/../lib'" \
-		"PROFILE_TASK=${PROFILE_TASK:-}" \
-		python \
-	; \
-	make install; \
-	\
-# enable GDB to load debugging data: https://github.com/docker-library/python/pull/701
-	bin="$(readlink -ve /usr/local/bin/python3)"; \
-	dir="$(dirname "$bin")"; \
-	mkdir -p "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/$dir"; \
-	cp -vL Tools/gdb/libpython.py "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/$bin-gdb.py"; \
-	\
-	cd /; \
-	rm -rf /usr/src/python; \
-	\
-	find /usr/local -depth \
-		\( \
-			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests -o -name idle_test \) \) \
-			-o \( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' -o -name 'libpython*.a' \) \) \
-			-o \( -type f -a -name 'wininst-*.exe' \) \
-		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
-	; \
-	\
-	ldconfig; \
-	\
-	export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1; \
-	python3 --version; \
-	\
-	pip3 install \
-		--disable-pip-version-check \
-		--no-cache-dir \
-		--no-compile \
-		'setuptools==57.5.0' \
-		wheel \
-	; \
-	pip3 --version
-
-# make some useful symlinks that are expected to exist ("/usr/local/bin/python" and friends)
-RUN set -eux; \
-	for src in idle3 pip3 pydoc3 python3 python3-config; do \
-		dst="$(echo "$src" | tr -d 3)"; \
-		[ -s "/usr/local/bin/$src" ]; \
-		[ ! -e "/usr/local/bin/$dst" ]; \
-		ln -svT "$src" "/usr/local/bin/$dst"; \
-	done
-
-CMD ["python3"]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/3.8/jammy/docker-bake.hcl b/python/3.8/jammy/docker-bake.hcl
deleted file mode 100644
index d0485a01..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/jammy/docker-bake.hcl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-variable "TAG_PREFIX" {
-  default = "docker.io/polymathrobotics/python"
-}
-
-variable "VERSION" {
-  default = "3.8.20"
-}
-
-# There's no darwin-based Docker, so if we're running on macOS, change the platform to linux
-variable "LOCAL_PLATFORM" {
-  default = regex_replace("${BAKE_LOCAL_PLATFORM}", "^(darwin)", "linux")
-}
-
-target "_common" {
-  dockerfile = "Containerfile"
-  tags = [
-    "${TAG_PREFIX}:${VERSION}-jammy",
-    "${TAG_PREFIX}:${join(".", slice(split(".", "${VERSION}"), 0, 2))}-jammy",
-  ]
-  labels = {
-    "org.opencontainers.image.source" = "https://github.com/polymathrobotics/oci"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.licenses" = "Apache-2.0"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.description" = "Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, open-source programming language."
-    "org.opencontainers.image.title" = "${TAG_PREFIX}"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.created" = "${timestamp()}"
-    "dev.polymathrobotics.image.readme-filepath" = "python/README.md"
-  }
-}
-
-target "local" {
-  inherits = ["_common"]
-  platforms = ["${LOCAL_PLATFORM}"]
-}
-
-target "default" {
-  inherits = ["_common"]
-  platforms = ["linux/amd64", "linux/arm64/v8"]
-} 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/3.8/jammy/test/controls/python.rb b/python/3.8/jammy/test/controls/python.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 2077bd77..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/jammy/test/controls/python.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-describe command('python3') do
-  it { should exist }
-end
diff --git a/python/3.8/slim-focal/Containerfile b/python/3.8/slim-focal/Containerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 13705dd0..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/slim-focal/Containerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,146 +0,0 @@
-# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=docker.io/ubuntu:focal-20240530
-# hadolint ignore=DL3006
-FROM $BASE_IMAGE
-
-# ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
-ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
-
-# cannot remove LANG even though https://bugs.python.org/issue19846 is fixed
-# last attempted removal of LANG broke many users:
-# https://github.com/docker-library/python/pull/570
-ENV LANG C.UTF-8
-
-# runtime dependencies
-RUN set -eux; \
-	apt-get update; \
-	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-		ca-certificates \
-		netbase \
-		tzdata \
-	; \
-	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-ENV GPG_KEY E3FF2839C048B25C084DEBE9B26995E310250568
-ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.8.20
-
-SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
-# hadolint ignore=DL3003,DL3013,DL3047,SC2086
-RUN set -eux; \
-	\
-	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
-	apt-get update; \
-	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-		dpkg-dev \
-		gcc \
-		gnupg \
-		libbluetooth-dev \
-		libbz2-dev \
-		libc6-dev \
-		libdb-dev \
-		libexpat1-dev \
-		libffi-dev \
-		libgdbm-dev \
-		liblzma-dev \
-		libncursesw5-dev \
-		libreadline-dev \
-		libsqlite3-dev \
-		libssl-dev \
-		make \
-		tk-dev \
-		uuid-dev \
-		wget \
-		xz-utils \
-		zlib1g-dev \
-	; \
-	\
-	wget -O python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz"; \
-	wget -O python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc"; \
-	GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; export GNUPGHOME; \
-	gpg --batch --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY"; \
-	gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz; \
-	gpgconf --kill all; \
-	rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc; \
-	mkdir -p /usr/src/python; \
-	tar --extract --directory /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 --file python.tar.xz; \
-	rm python.tar.xz; \
-	\
-	cd /usr/src/python; \
-	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
-	./configure \
-		--build="$gnuArch" \
-		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
-		--enable-optimizations \
-		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
-		--enable-shared \
-		--with-system-expat \
-		--with-ensurepip \
-	; \
-	nproc="$(nproc)"; \
-	EXTRA_CFLAGS="$(dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS)"; \
-	LDFLAGS="$(dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS)"; \
-	LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS:--Wl},--strip-all"; \
-	make -j "$nproc" \
-		"EXTRA_CFLAGS=${EXTRA_CFLAGS:-}" \
-		"LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS:-}" \
-		"PROFILE_TASK=${PROFILE_TASK:-}" \
-	; \
-# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/784
-# prevent accidental usage of a system installed libpython of the same version
-	rm python; \
-	make -j "$nproc" \
-		"EXTRA_CFLAGS=${EXTRA_CFLAGS:-}" \
-		"LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS:--Wl},-rpath='\$\$ORIGIN/../lib'" \
-		"PROFILE_TASK=${PROFILE_TASK:-}" \
-		python \
-	; \
-	make install; \
-	\
-	cd /; \
-	rm -rf /usr/src/python; \
-	\
-	find /usr/local -depth \
-		\( \
-			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests -o -name idle_test \) \) \
-			-o \( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' -o -name 'libpython*.a' \) \) \
-			-o \( -type f -a -name 'wininst-*.exe' \) \
-		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
-	; \
-	\
-	ldconfig; \
-	\
-	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
-	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
-	find /usr/local -type f -executable -not \( -name '*tkinter*' \) -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
-		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
-		| sort -u \
-		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
-		| cut -d: -f1 \
-		| sort -u \
-		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
-	; \
-	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
-	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
-	\
-	export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1; \
-	python3 --version; \
-	\
-	pip3 install \
-		--disable-pip-version-check \
-		--no-cache-dir \
-		--no-compile \
-		'setuptools==57.5.0' \
-		wheel \
-	; \
-	pip3 --version
-
-# make some useful symlinks that are expected to exist ("/usr/local/bin/python" and friends)
-RUN set -eux; \
-	for src in idle3 pip3 pydoc3 python3 python3-config; do \
-		dst="$(echo "$src" | tr -d 3)"; \
-		[ -s "/usr/local/bin/$src" ]; \
-		[ ! -e "/usr/local/bin/$dst" ]; \
-		ln -svT "$src" "/usr/local/bin/$dst"; \
-	done
-
-CMD ["python3"]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/3.8/slim-focal/docker-bake.hcl b/python/3.8/slim-focal/docker-bake.hcl
deleted file mode 100644
index 0bcf53c5..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/slim-focal/docker-bake.hcl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-variable "TAG_PREFIX" {
-  default = "docker.io/polymathrobotics/python"
-}
-
-variable "VERSION" {
-  default = "3.8.20"
-}
-
-# There's no darwin-based Docker, so if we're running on macOS, change the platform to linux
-variable "LOCAL_PLATFORM" {
-  default = regex_replace("${BAKE_LOCAL_PLATFORM}", "^(darwin)", "linux")
-}
-
-target "_common" {
-  dockerfile = "Containerfile"
-  tags = [
-    "${TAG_PREFIX}:${VERSION}-focal",
-    "${TAG_PREFIX}:${join(".", slice(split(".", "${VERSION}"), 0, 2))}-focal",
-  ]
-  labels = {
-    "org.opencontainers.image.source" = "https://github.com/polymathrobotics/oci"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.licenses" = "Apache-2.0"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.description" = "Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, open-source programming language."
-    "org.opencontainers.image.title" = "${TAG_PREFIX}"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.created" = "${timestamp()}"
-    "dev.polymathrobotics.image.readme-filepath" = "python/README.md"
-  }
-}
-
-target "local" {
-  inherits = ["_common"]
-  platforms = ["${LOCAL_PLATFORM}"]
-}
-
-target "default" {
-  inherits = ["_common"]
-  platforms = ["linux/amd64", "linux/arm64/v8"]
-} 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/3.8/slim-focal/test/controls/python.rb b/python/3.8/slim-focal/test/controls/python.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 2077bd77..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/slim-focal/test/controls/python.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-describe command('python3') do
-  it { should exist }
-end
diff --git a/python/3.8/slim-jammy/Containerfile b/python/3.8/slim-jammy/Containerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index ca86ae5d..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/slim-jammy/Containerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,146 +0,0 @@
-# syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
-ARG BASE_IMAGE=docker.io/ubuntu:jammy-20240911.1
-# hadolint ignore=DL3006
-FROM $BASE_IMAGE
-
-# ensure local python is preferred over distribution python
-ENV PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH
-
-# cannot remove LANG even though https://bugs.python.org/issue19846 is fixed
-# last attempted removal of LANG broke many users:
-# https://github.com/docker-library/python/pull/570
-ENV LANG C.UTF-8
-
-# runtime dependencies
-RUN set -eux; \
-	apt-get update; \
-	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-		ca-certificates \
-		netbase \
-		tzdata \
-	; \
-	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
-ENV GPG_KEY E3FF2839C048B25C084DEBE9B26995E310250568
-ENV PYTHON_VERSION 3.8.20
-
-SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
-# hadolint ignore=DL3003,DL3013,DL3047,SC2086
-RUN set -eux; \
-	\
-	savedAptMark="$(apt-mark showmanual)"; \
-	apt-get update; \
-	apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-		dpkg-dev \
-		gcc \
-		gnupg \
-		libbluetooth-dev \
-		libbz2-dev \
-		libc6-dev \
-		libdb-dev \
-		libexpat1-dev \
-		libffi-dev \
-		libgdbm-dev \
-		liblzma-dev \
-		libncursesw5-dev \
-		libreadline-dev \
-		libsqlite3-dev \
-		libssl-dev \
-		make \
-		tk-dev \
-		uuid-dev \
-		wget \
-		xz-utils \
-		zlib1g-dev \
-	; \
-	\
-	wget -O python.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz"; \
-	wget -O python.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc"; \
-	GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)"; export GNUPGHOME; \
-	gpg --batch --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys "$GPG_KEY"; \
-	gpg --batch --verify python.tar.xz.asc python.tar.xz; \
-	gpgconf --kill all; \
-	rm -rf "$GNUPGHOME" python.tar.xz.asc; \
-	mkdir -p /usr/src/python; \
-	tar --extract --directory /usr/src/python --strip-components=1 --file python.tar.xz; \
-	rm python.tar.xz; \
-	\
-	cd /usr/src/python; \
-	gnuArch="$(dpkg-architecture --query DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)"; \
-	./configure \
-		--build="$gnuArch" \
-		--enable-loadable-sqlite-extensions \
-		--enable-optimizations \
-		--enable-option-checking=fatal \
-		--enable-shared \
-		--with-system-expat \
-		--with-ensurepip \
-	; \
-	nproc="$(nproc)"; \
-	EXTRA_CFLAGS="$(dpkg-buildflags --get CFLAGS)"; \
-	LDFLAGS="$(dpkg-buildflags --get LDFLAGS)"; \
-	LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS:--Wl},--strip-all"; \
-	make -j "$nproc" \
-		"EXTRA_CFLAGS=${EXTRA_CFLAGS:-}" \
-		"LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS:-}" \
-		"PROFILE_TASK=${PROFILE_TASK:-}" \
-	; \
-# https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/784
-# prevent accidental usage of a system installed libpython of the same version
-	rm python; \
-	make -j "$nproc" \
-		"EXTRA_CFLAGS=${EXTRA_CFLAGS:-}" \
-		"LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS:--Wl},-rpath='\$\$ORIGIN/../lib'" \
-		"PROFILE_TASK=${PROFILE_TASK:-}" \
-		python \
-	; \
-	make install; \
-	\
-	cd /; \
-	rm -rf /usr/src/python; \
-	\
-	find /usr/local -depth \
-		\( \
-			\( -type d -a \( -name test -o -name tests -o -name idle_test \) \) \
-			-o \( -type f -a \( -name '*.pyc' -o -name '*.pyo' -o -name 'libpython*.a' \) \) \
-			-o \( -type f -a -name 'wininst-*.exe' \) \
-		\) -exec rm -rf '{}' + \
-	; \
-	\
-	ldconfig; \
-	\
-	apt-mark auto '.*' > /dev/null; \
-	apt-mark manual $savedAptMark; \
-	find /usr/local -type f -executable -not \( -name '*tkinter*' \) -exec ldd '{}' ';' \
-		| awk '/=>/ { so = $(NF-1); if (index(so, "/usr/local/") == 1) { next }; gsub("^/(usr/)?", "", so); printf "*%s\n", so }' \
-		| sort -u \
-		| xargs -r dpkg-query --search \
-		| cut -d: -f1 \
-		| sort -u \
-		| xargs -r apt-mark manual \
-	; \
-	apt-get purge -y --auto-remove -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=false; \
-	rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*; \
-	\
-	export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1; \
-	python3 --version; \
-	\
-	pip3 install \
-		--disable-pip-version-check \
-		--no-cache-dir \
-		--no-compile \
-		'setuptools==57.5.0' \
-		wheel \
-	; \
-	pip3 --version
-
-# make some useful symlinks that are expected to exist ("/usr/local/bin/python" and friends)
-RUN set -eux; \
-	for src in idle3 pip3 pydoc3 python3 python3-config; do \
-		dst="$(echo "$src" | tr -d 3)"; \
-		[ -s "/usr/local/bin/$src" ]; \
-		[ ! -e "/usr/local/bin/$dst" ]; \
-		ln -svT "$src" "/usr/local/bin/$dst"; \
-	done
-
-CMD ["python3"]
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diff --git a/python/3.8/slim-jammy/docker-bake.hcl b/python/3.8/slim-jammy/docker-bake.hcl
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index 7941316d..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/slim-jammy/docker-bake.hcl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-variable "TAG_PREFIX" {
-  default = "docker.io/polymathrobotics/python"
-}
-
-variable "VERSION" {
-  default = "3.8.20"
-}
-
-# There's no darwin-based Docker, so if we're running on macOS, change the platform to linux
-variable "LOCAL_PLATFORM" {
-  default = regex_replace("${BAKE_LOCAL_PLATFORM}", "^(darwin)", "linux")
-}
-
-target "_common" {
-  dockerfile = "Containerfile"
-  tags = [
-    "${TAG_PREFIX}:${VERSION}-slim-jammy",
-    "${TAG_PREFIX}:${join(".", slice(split(".", "${VERSION}"), 0, 2))}-slim-jammy",
-  ]
-  labels = {
-    "org.opencontainers.image.source" = "https://github.com/polymathrobotics/oci"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.licenses" = "Apache-2.0"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.description" = "Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, open-source programming language."
-    "org.opencontainers.image.title" = "${TAG_PREFIX}"
-    "org.opencontainers.image.created" = "${timestamp()}"
-    "dev.polymathrobotics.image.readme-filepath" = "python/README.md"
-  }
-}
-
-target "local" {
-  inherits = ["_common"]
-  platforms = ["${LOCAL_PLATFORM}"]
-}
-
-target "default" {
-  inherits = ["_common"]
-  platforms = ["linux/amd64", "linux/arm64/v8"]
-} 
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diff --git a/python/3.8/slim-jammy/test/controls/python.rb b/python/3.8/slim-jammy/test/controls/python.rb
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index 2077bd77..00000000
--- a/python/3.8/slim-jammy/test/controls/python.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-describe command('python3') do
-  it { should exist }
-end