Hi Renat, I think it makes sense to upgrade to Python 3, and I will bump Livy to a new major version (just to be clear for users).
I propose to bump to version 1.0.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT including: - Python 3 update - Spark 3 update - other important updates (I already have some branches ready) If no objection, I will create a 0.x branch with current 0.8.0-incubating to just keep the current state. Regards JB > Le 1 avr. 2021 à 06:42, Renat Bekbolatov <rebek...@microsoft.com.INVALID> a > écrit : > > Hello! > > First of all, thank you all for making this project possible. > > Livy is adopted by many organizations and has been incredibly useful. It is > also > what made Jupyter notebooks work with Spark, via sparkmagic, which by itself > already made a huge impact in the world of Data Science and Machine Learning, > Data Engineering with Spark. > > We are thinking of making some updates to Apache Livy and noticed that it > relies on Python 2. > > As we all know, PSF decided to sunset Python 2 as of January last year, with > no > further support - including security patches - available anymore. > https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ > > According to JetBrains' Python Developers Survey 2018, already in 2018 Python > 2 > usage by developers was at 16% and was dropping rapidly. > https://www.jetbrains.com/research/python-developers-survey-2017/ > > Are there any plans to drop support for Python 2 and move to Python 3.7+? > How hard in your estimate would it be to make this upgrade? > > Kind regards, > Renat >
