(this is a build system-specific reply, but quite pertinent to the conversation)
we currently test spark on a centos 6.X deployment, but in the next ~month will be bumping everything to centos 7. by default, centos 7 comes w/python 2.7.5 installed as the system python. for any builds that need python 2.6 (1.5 and earlier), we'll be using anaconda environments to manage them. i'm generally VERY happy with how easy it is to manage our three different python environments with anaconda, and don't plan on changing that at all in the foreseeable future. shane On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:52 AM, David Chin <david.c...@drexel.edu> wrote: > FWIW, RHEL 6 still uses Python 2.6, although 2.7.8 and 3.3.2 are available > through Red Hat Software Collections. See: > https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/ > > I run an academic compute cluster on RHEL 6. We do, however, provide Python > 2.7.x and 3.5.x via modulefiles. > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 8:45 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. >>>> >>>> >>> > > > > -- > David Chin, Ph.D. > david.c...@drexel.edu Sr. Systems Administrator, URCF, Drexel U. > http://www.drexel.edu/research/urcf/ > https://linuxfollies.blogspot.com/ > +1.215.221.4747 (mobile) > https://github.com/prehensilecode > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org
