Given that 3.6 has been EOL for 2+ years[1], I don't think it makes sense to add support for it back.
Kind Regards, Brandon [1] https://devguide.python.org/versions/ On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 12:08 PM David Capwell <dcapw...@apple.com> wrote: > > Originally we had planned to support RHEL 7 but in testing 5.0 we found out > that cqlsh no longer works on RHEL 7[1]. This was changed in CASSANDRA-19245 > which upgraded python-driver from 3.28.0 to 3.29.0. For some reason this > minor version upgrade also dropped support for python 3.6 which is the > supported python version on RHEL 7. > > We wanted to bring this to the attention of the community to figure out next > steps; do we wish to say that RHEL 7 is no longer supported (making upgrades > tied to OS upgrades, which can be very hard for users), or do we want to add > python 3.6 support back to python-driver? > > > 1: the error seen by users is > $ cqlsh > Warning: unsupported version of Python, required 3.8-3.11 but found 3.6 > Warning: unsupported version of Python, required 3.8-3.11 but found 2.7 > No appropriate Python interpreter found. > $ > >
