rhel/centos 6 ships with python 2.6, doesnt it? if so, i still know plenty of large companies where python 2.6 is the only option. asking them for python 2.7 is not going to work
so i think its a bad idea On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Juliet Hougland <juliet.hougl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see a reason Spark 2.0 would need to support Python 2.6. At this > point, Python 3 should be the default that is encouraged. > Most organizations acknowledge the 2.7 is common, but lagging behind the > version they should theoretically use. Dropping python 2.6 > support sounds very reasonable to me. > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Nicholas Chammas < > nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 >> >> Red Hat supports Python 2.6 on REHL 5 until 2020 >> <https://alexgaynor.net/2015/mar/30/red-hat-open-source-community/>, but >> otherwise yes, Python 2.6 is ancient history and the core Python developers >> stopped supporting it in 2013. REHL 5 is not a good enough reason to >> continue support for Python 2.6 IMO. >> >> We should aim to support Python 2.7 and Python 3.3+ (which I believe we >> currently do). >> >> Nick >> >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:01 AM Allen Zhang <allenzhang...@126.com> wrote: >> >>> plus 1, >>> >>> we are currently using python 2.7.2 in production environment. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 在 2016-01-05 18:11:45，"Meethu Mathew" <meethu.mat...@flytxt.com> 写道： >>> >>> +1 >>> We use Python 2.7 >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Meethu Mathew >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Does anybody here care about us dropping support for Python 2.6 in >>>> Spark 2.0? >>>> >>>> Python 2.6 is ancient, and is pretty slow in many aspects (e.g. json >>>> parsing) when compared with Python 2.7. Some libraries that Spark depend on >>>> stopped supporting 2.6. We can still convince the library maintainers to >>>> support 2.6, but it will be extra work. I'm curious if anybody still uses >>>> Python 2.6 to run Spark. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >
