+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. >> >> >> >
