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Python 3.6 is EOL
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
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.
@jadchaar do you think we should do a deprecation warning for 3.6 on install like we did for 2.7?
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.
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.
@systemcatch hey, would you be able update the stats to see if we should consider making a decision on this?
@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.