Re: Future of the Python 2 support.

2016-12-05 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
Fair enough. I have to admit I am bit disappointed but that's life :) On 12/04/2016 07:28 PM, Reynold Xin wrote: > Echoing Nick. I don't see any strong reason to drop Python 2 support. > We typically drop support for X when it is rarely used and support for > X is long past EOL. Python 2 is still

Re: Future of the Python 2 support.

2016-12-04 Thread Reynold Xin
Echoing Nick. I don't see any strong reason to drop Python 2 support. We typically drop support for X when it is rarely used and support for X is long past EOL. Python 2 is still very popular, and depending on the statistics it might be more popular than Python 3. On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 9:29 AM N

Re: Future of the Python 2 support.

2016-12-04 Thread Nicholas Chammas
I don't think it makes sense to deprecate or drop support for Python 2.7 until at least 2020, when 2.7 itself will be EOLed. (As of Spark 2.0, Python 2.6 support is deprecated and will be removed by Spark 2.2. Python 2.7 is only version of Python 2 that's still fully supported.) Given the widespre

Future of the Python 2 support.

2016-12-04 Thread Maciej Szymkiewicz
Hi, I am aware there was a previous discussion about dropping support for different platforms (http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Straw-poll-dropping-support-for-things-like-Scala-2-10-td19553.html) but somehow it has been dominated by Scala and JVM and never touched the sub