Hi all, The support for Python 2.7 has been discussed before. At some point, it was decided to support it until the end of 2019 (ARROW-331 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-331>, the docs state that pyarrow "pledges to maintain compatibility with Python 2.7 until the end of 2019"). Last year, it was then decided to drop support after the 1.0 release (ARROW-5757 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5757>). However, now that the 1.0 release is postponed a bit further, we are thinking to drop support after the 0.16.0 release coming shortly.
Python 2.7 has officially reached end of life since January 1, 2020 (so it is no longer maintained), and also many other Python packages (such as numpy and pandas) already dropped support last year. So the proposal would be that 0.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7, and the 1.0 release later this year will thus be Python 3 only. Feedback on this timeline is welcome, certainly from communities where Python 2.7 is still used a lot. Best, Joris
