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Bowen Song edited comment on CASSANDRA-17450 at 4/6/22 8:58 PM:
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I hugely dislike that policy.

I should also note that I currently manage very large number of servers with 
CentOS 7 on them. The effort to upgrade the OS was started about 2 years ago, 
but I would expect it takes further 2-3 years to fully complete. If Cassandra 
stops supporting Python 3.6, I will be forced to run an old version until the 
OS upgrade is completed. This is much bigger security risk, as Cassandra has to 
talk to clients over the network, but an old Python version will only be used 
to run trusted code locally, such as cqlsh and Ansible modules.


was (Author: bowen song):
I hugely dislike that policy.

I should also note that I currently manage very large of servers with CentOS 7 
on them. The effort to upgrade the OS was started about 2 years ago, but I 
would expect it takes further 2-3 years to fully complete. If Cassandra stops 
supporting Python 3.6, I will be forced to run an old version until the OS 
upgrade is completed. This is much bigger security risk, as Cassandra has to 
talk to clients over the network, but an old Python version will only be used 
to run trusted code locally, such as cqlsh and Ansible modules.

> Drop python 3.6 support
> -----------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-17450
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17450
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: CQL/Interpreter
>            Reporter: Brad Schoening
>            Priority: Normal
>             Fix For: 4.x
>
>
> Python 3.6 became EOL as of 12/23/21.  There will be no further releases or 
> security fixes for Python 3.6.
> [https://github.com/httpie/httpie/issues/1177]
> [https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches]
>  
> This would be aligned with Apache Airflow, PyArrow and Spark projects which 
> have deprecated and/or EOL python 3.6.



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