+juliet for an additional opinion, but FWIW I think it's safe to say that future CDH will have a more consistent Python story and that story will support 2.7 rather than 2.6.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:17 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org
