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Python 3.6 is EOL #1083

Open systemcatch opened 2 years ago

systemcatch commented 2 years ago

Python 3.6 reached EOL in December, here is the current split by version for arrow usage.

category percent downloads
3.7 38.26% 1,910,775
3.8 32.76% 1,635,938
3.6 12.85% 641,712
3.9 6.48% 323,713
null 3.70% 185,035
2.7 3.07% 153,354
3.10 2.26% 112,810
3.5 0.51% 25,236
3.4 0.11% 5,477
3.11 0.01% 404
Total 4,994,454

Date range: 2021-12-01 - 2021-12-31

krisfremen commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the version numbers breakdown @systemcatch

talhajunaidd commented 2 years ago

Is there any technical reason to remove the support for python 3.6?

jadchaar commented 2 years ago

Nope not as of now. Most new language features are backported back to 3.6 so I doubt we will drop it anytime soon. I think we should wait at least a year before dropping support to give teams time to migrate to newer versions of Python.

systemcatch commented 2 years ago

@jadchaar do you think we should do a deprecation warning for 3.6 on install like we did for 2.7?

jadchaar commented 2 years ago

Eventually we should, but I think until we have a concrete path to deprecation and an exact timeline I don’t know if it’s worth throwing a deprecation warning which annoyed some users during 2.7 deprecation.

I think we should give users some time to migrate away from 3.6 since it just went EOL. And down the line we can issue a warning once the numbers trend downward and supporting 3.6 becomes an annoyance. Until we encounter issues with 3.6 and other major packages drop support I don’t think we should make a move on this.

systemcatch commented 2 years ago

Agreed I think that is the best course of action for now, I will keep posting the usage stats every month so we stay up to date.

krisfremen commented 2 years ago

@systemcatch hey, would you be able update the stats to see if we should consider making a decision on this?

systemcatch commented 2 years ago

@krisfremen no problem, here are the stats for April.

category percent downloads
3.8 33.20% 2,175,467
3.7 32.77% 2,147,326
3.9 11.80% 773,300
3.6 9.75% 639,097
3.10 5.29% 346,789
null 4.51% 295,713
2.7 2.36% 154,787
3.5 0.22% 14,484
3.4 0.06% 4,254
3.11 0.02% 1,067
3.3 0.00% 5
Total 6,552,289

Date range: 2022-04-01 - 2022-04-30

3.6 usage has dropped from 12.85% to 9.75% since December.