Hi Joris, The reason why I asked for an extension, is I believe several products from my company that have Arrow as a dependency still support Python 3.6. Most are aiming to get off by next quarter. I'm not sure what version they will jump to. I can't speak to what a general rational policy here is but for most enterprise users I expect they would like to see support for all Python versions that aren't EOL.
-Micah On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 12:13 AM Joris Van den Bossche < jorisvandenboss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note that the last bug-fix release of Python 3.6 already happened at > 2018-12-11 (3.6.8 release), and since then it's only supported for > source-only and security-only releases. > > But agreed with Antoine that it's currently not a big burden to keep > Python 3.6 a bit longer. With the change of the release cadence of Python > to annual releases (while they are still supported for 5 years for security > fixes, as is the case now), this does mean more python versions to test > against, though, if we keep supporting them the full 5 year in the future > as well. > > Joris > > On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 20:40, Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Could we postpone the dropping Python 3.6 support to be inline with what >> the Python core maintainers deadline? Or at least until the Arrow 6 >> release? >> >> Thanks, >> Micah >> >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 10:36 AM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > This seems reasonable to me. >> > >> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 11:39 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > In https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12706 it was proposed >> to >> > > drop support for the aforementioned Python and Numpy versions. The >> > > rationale is that they have ceased to be supported by Numpy, which is >> a >> > > mandatory dependency of PyArrow. >> > > >> > > Besides, Pandas (an optional dependency of PyArrow) already dropped >> > > support for Python 3.6, and Python 3.6 will be unsupported by the >> Python >> > > core team at the end of 2021. >> > > >> > > What do you think? If you are opposed to this, please speak up. >> > > >> > > Regards >> > > >> > > Antoine. >> > > >> > >> >
