Here’s the tweet from the horse’s mouth: https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1133496146700058626?s=21
Cheers Jules — Sent from my iPhone Pardon the dumb thumb typos :) > On May 29, 2019, at 10:12 PM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Deprecated -- certainly and sooner than later. > I don't have a good sense of the overhead of continuing to support > Python 2; is it large enough to consider dropping it in Spark 3.0? > >> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 11:47 PM Xiangrui Meng <men...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I want to revive this old thread since no action was taken so far. If we >> plan to mark Python 2 as deprecated in Spark 3.0, we should do it as early >> as possible and let users know ahead. PySpark depends on Python, numpy, >> pandas, and pyarrow, all of which are sunsetting Python 2 support by >> 2020/01/01 per https://python3statement.org/. At that time we cannot really >> support Python 2 because the dependent libraries do not plan to make new >> releases, even for security reasons. So I suggest the following: >> >> 1. Update Spark website and state that Python 2 is deprecated in Spark 3.0 >> and its support will be removed in a release after 2020/01/01. >> 2. Make a formal announcement to dev@ and users@. >> 3. Add Apache Spark project to https://python3statement.org/ timeline. >> 4. Update PySpark, check python version and print a deprecation warning if >> version < 3. >> >> Any thoughts and suggestions? >> >> Best, >> Xiangrui > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >
