[SPARK-2910] Test with Python 2.6 on Jenkins

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.0
• Component/s: Project Infra, PySpark
• Assignee: Josh Rosen
• Reporter: Josh Rosen
• Created: 07/Aug/14 21:07
• Updated: 09/Jan/15 17:50
• Resolved: 11/Aug/14 18:56

Description

As long as we continue to support Python 2.6 in PySpark, Jenkins should test with Python 2.6.

We could downgrade the system Python to 2.6, but it might be easier / cleaner to install 2.6 alongside the current Python and export PYSPARK_PYTHON=python2.6 in the test runner script.

Issue Links

• relates to: SPARK-2101 Python unit tests fail on Python 2.6 because of lack of unittest.skipIf()
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #1874 (JoshRosen)