+1 We use Python 2.7 Regards,
Meethu Mathew On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: > Does anybody here care about us dropping support for Python 2.6 in Spark > 2.0? > > Python 2.6 is ancient, and is pretty slow in many aspects (e.g. json > parsing) when compared with Python 2.7. Some libraries that Spark depend on > stopped supporting 2.6. We can still convince the library maintainers to > support 2.6, but it will be extra work. I'm curious if anybody still uses > Python 2.6 to run Spark. > > Thanks. > > >