Unfortunately, Koert is right. I've been in a couple of projects using Spark (banking industry) where CentOS + Python 2.6 is the toolbox available.
That said, I believe it should not be a concern for Spark. Python 2.6 is old and busted, which is totally opposite to the Spark philosophy IMO. > El 5 ene 2016, a las 20:07, Koert Kuipers <ko...@tresata.com> escribió: > > rhel/centos 6 ships with python 2.6, doesnt it? > > if so, i still know plenty of large companies where python 2.6 is the only > option. asking them for python 2.7 is not going to work > > so i think its a bad idea > >> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Juliet Hougland <juliet.hougl...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> I don't see a reason Spark 2.0 would need to support Python 2.6. At this >> point, Python 3 should be the default that is encouraged. >> Most organizations acknowledge the 2.7 is common, but lagging behind the >> version they should theoretically use. Dropping python 2.6 >> support sounds very reasonable to me. >> >>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Nicholas Chammas >>> <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> +1 >>> >>> Red Hat supports Python 2.6 on REHL 5 until 2020, but otherwise yes, Python >>> 2.6 is ancient history and the core Python developers stopped supporting it >>> in 2013. REHL 5 is not a good enough reason to continue support for Python >>> 2.6 IMO. >>> >>> We should aim to support Python 2.7 and Python 3.3+ (which I believe we >>> currently do). >>> >>> Nick >>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:01 AM Allen Zhang <allenzhang...@126.com> wrote: >>>> plus 1, >>>> >>>> we are currently using python 2.7.2 in production environment. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 在 2016-01-05 18:11:45，"Meethu Mathew" <meethu.mat...@flytxt.com> 写道： >>>> +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. >
