+1. And we should start testing 3.7 and maybe 3.8 in Jenkins. On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 9:34 AM Dongjoon Hyun <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for starting the thread. > > In addition to that, we currently are testing Python 3.6 only in Apache > Spark Jenkins environment. > > Given that Python 3.8 is already out and Apache Spark 3.0.0 RC1 will start > next January > (https://spark.apache.org/versioning-policy.html), I'm +1 for the > deprecation (Python < 3.6) at Apache Spark 3.0.0. > > It's just a deprecation to prepare the next-step development cycle. > > Bests, > Dongjoon. > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 1:10 AM Maciej Szymkiewicz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> While deprecation of Python 2 in 3.0.0 has been announced >> <https://spark.apache.org/news/plan-for-dropping-python-2-support.html>, >> there is no clear statement about specific continuing support of different >> Python 3 version. >> >> Specifically: >> >> - Python 3.4 has been retired this year. >> - Python 3.5 is already in the "security fixes only" mode and should >> be retired in the middle of 2020. >> >> Continued support of these two blocks adoption of many new Python >> features (PEP 468) and it is hard to justify beyond 2020. >> >> Should these two be deprecated in 3.0.0 as well? >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Maciej >> >>
