+1, I even thought we had already done it 🤔 Best, Wei
> On Jun 23, 2025, at 1:50 PM, Amogh Desai <amoghdesai....@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 to this. > > Since the tentative date for PY 3.9 deprecation is nearing (Oct 2025), > since we support > 3.10 (relatively easier migration), I do not see why we should delay the > support here. > > Maintaining older versions is a nightmare in itself and becomes even more > so with > the combinations we have in Airflow. Waiting till the last day could also > lead to surprises > which might give us a hard time. > > Thanks & Regards, > Amogh Desai > > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com> wrote: > >> +1. We have more and more problems because some of our dependencies are >> already dropping support for 3.9 and that complicates dependency >> management. Also, there a few language features added in 3.10 that could >> make our code better: >> >> * https://peps.python.org/pep-0636/ -> structural pattern >> matching (match/case) >> * there are few improvements to typing system that could make our >> (sometimes complex) type definition simpler >> https://peps.python.org/pep-0612/ - Parameter Specification Variables, >> https://peps.python.org/pep-0613/ - explicit type aliases , >> https://peps.python.org/pep-0647/ - user defined type guards, >> https://peps.python.org/pep-0604/ - Allow writing union types as X | Y >> (without from __future__ import annotations and can be used in isinstance) >> >> Also generally speaking migration to Python 3.10 from 3.9 for our users >> should be mostly a no-op. Generally it should "just work" as there were >> very little breaking changes. Similarly 3.10 -> 3.11 was easy. 3.11 -> 3.12 >> and especially 3.12 -> 3.13 is much more involved, so i'd be cautious here, >> but 3.9 - 3.10 should be easy for everyone. I think we do not lose much by >> switching 3.1 to be 3.10+ only and the sooner we do it, the less we will be >> dragged down by 3.9. >> >> J. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM Pavankumar Gopidesu < >> gopidesupa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks elad, yes agree on this to start working on to drop as only few >>> months left to Python 3.9 EOL. >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> Regards, >>> Pavan >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM Elad Kalif <elad...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I'd like to propose starting dropping support for Python 3.9. Our >> policy >>> ( >>>> >>>> >>> >> https://github.com/apache/airflow?tab=readme-ov-file#support-for-python-and-kubernetes-versions >>>> ) >>>> allows this (best effort item). At least for providers, it becomes time >>>> consuming to find workarounds and fixes specifically for Python 3.9 and >>> at >>>> the same time the extra effort invested in it prevents delivering >>>> capabilities that users need. Example: >>>> https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/51756 >>>> >>>> I don't think we should wait until the exact day of EOL for Python 3.9, >>> we >>>> are close enough and we should begin dropping support gradually. >>>> >>>> WDYT? >>>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@airflow.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@airflow.apache.org
