diff --git a/szurubooru-client/pyproject.toml b/szurubooru-client/pyproject.toml
index 8c91a5d..ddaa501 100644
--- a/szurubooru-client/pyproject.toml
+++ b/szurubooru-client/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "maturin"
 
 [project]
 name = "szurubooru_client"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.7"
 classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Rust",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython",
diff --git a/tests/python-sync/requirements.txt b/tests/python-sync/requirements.txt
index aa5030d..8a059b4 100644
--- a/tests/python-sync/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/python-sync/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 Jinja2==3.1.4
 MarkupSafe==2.1.5
 maturin==1.7.0
-pdoc==14.6.0
-Pygments==2.18.0
 loguru==0.7.2
diff --git a/tests/python-sync/test.py b/tests/python-sync/test.py
index b0c6cef..3f7f39b 100644
--- a/tests/python-sync/test.py
+++ b/tests/python-sync/test.py
@@ -336,8 +336,14 @@ def test_downloads(client):
     f3_hasher = hashlib.new("sha1")
 
     with open("../folly3.jpg", "rb") as f:
-        while (byte := f.read(1)):
-            f3_hasher.update(byte)
+        #while (byte := f.read(1)):
+        #    f3_hasher.update(byte)
+        while True:
+            byte = f.read(1)
+            if len(byte):
+                f3_hasher.update(byte)
+            else:
+                break
 
     f3_post = client.list_posts([anonymous_token("folly3")]).results[0]
     with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname:
@@ -347,8 +353,14 @@ def test_downloads(client):
         client.download_image_to_path(f3_post.id, fname)
         dl_hasher = hashlib.new("sha1")
         with open(fname, "rb") as f:
-            while (byte := f.read(1)):
-             dl_hasher.update(byte)
+            #while (byte := f.read(1)):
+            # dl_hasher.update(byte)
+            while True:
+                byte = f.read(1)
+                if len(byte):
+                    dl_hasher.update(byte)
+                else:
+                    break
 
     assert f3_hasher.hexdigest() == dl_hasher.hexdigest()