+1 Companies that use stock python in redhat 2.6 will need to upgrade or install fresh version wich is total of 3.5 minutes so no issues ...
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:17 AM, 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. > > > -- Aleksandar Kacanski
