[ARROW-12706] [Python] Drop python 3.6

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/28450
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adam Lippai
• Created: 09/May/21 13:20
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:28
• Resolved: 29/Dec/21 12:41

Description

If we are following NEP 29 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. 

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-15214 [Python] Drop Numpy 1.16 support
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #12026