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Adam Lippai commented on ARROW-12706:
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Some context:
* In this field Dask and Pandas dropped the Python 3.6 support
* Python 3.8.x is now in "security bugfixes only" stage, no further regular
bugfixes are expected (I'm sharing this because it was really surprising to me)
> [Python] Drop python 3.6 and numpy 1.16 support
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> Key: ARROW-12706
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-12706
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Adam Lippai
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 5.0.0
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> If we are following [NEP
> 29|https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html] we can safely
> drop python 3.6 (released in 2016) and numpy 1.16 support (released in 2019),
> they got unsupported in January by numpy.
> Python 3.6 will reach end of life in 6-7 months anyways, so it's a good
> target for removal in pyarrow 5.0.0 or 6.0.0.
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