[SPARK-9705] outdated Python 3 and IPython information

• Type: Documentation
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Documentation, PySpark
• Labels: documentation
• Target Version/s: 1.4.2, 1.5.0
• Assignee: Davies Liu
• Reporter: Piotr Migdał
• Shepherd: Josh Rosen
• Created: 06/Aug/15 20:38
• Updated: 19/Aug/15 05:11
• Resolved: 19/Aug/15 05:11

Description

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4897 adds Python 3.4 support to 1.4.0 and above, but the official docs (1.4.1, but the same is for 1.4.0) says explicitly:
"Spark 1.4.1 works with Python 2.6 or higher (but not Python 3)."

Affected:
https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.4.0/programming-guide.html
https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.4.1/programming-guide.html

There are some other Python-related things, which are outdated, e.g. this line:
"For example, to launch the IPython Notebook with PyLab plot support:"
(At least since IPython 3.0 PyLab/Matplotlib support happens inside a notebook; and the line "--pylab inline" is already removed.)

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SPARK-9822 Update doc about supported Python versions
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #8245 (davies)