I’ve done some more research and testing around Python 3 compatibility for impala. I’ve added details to jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-3343
As Philip correctly guessed in our previous thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1656337501020c81d7e47a7ea0d2a168a5e7cb3d48a3008cd4369088@%3Cdev.impala.apache.org%3E I’m stuck at Thrift and its interaction with impala. According to https://pypi.org/project/thrift/ , Thrift is Python 3 friendly. However my reading of the Beeswaxservice.py and Thrift (not necessarily complete) tells me that Beeswaxwservice.py is a compiled Thrift program, and not something I should be editing directly. That sounds to me like I need a full Impala development and test/validation environment, and now I’m definitely in over my head. As well as being a blocking bug that stops me from completing the exploration for making my own Python 3 compatible impala_shell.py. That being said, I think that impala_shell is hours away from being Python 3 compatible, and I’m happy to work with somebody that has the development and test/validation environment, to see if we can get it working. All of my research time and detailed notes added to Jira came from less than a half day of effort. If anybody has the proper development environment and would be willing to work with me on this, please contact me and let me know. I know that initial exploration will be a few hours, with a decent chance (all depending on the Thrift related stuff) of this being done in a few hours. Thanks, Asoka
