[jira] [Comment Edited] (SPARK-1990) spark-ec2 should only need Python 2.6, not 2.7

["Anant Daksh Asthana (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Anant Daksh Asthana edited comment on SPARK-1990 at 6/2/14 5:58 PM:
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Python 2.6 does not have the check_output function. The output needs to be read from stdout.

https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/941


was (Author: slcclimber):
Python 2.6 does not have the check_output function. The output needs to be read from stdout.

> spark-ec2 should only need Python 2.6, not 2.7
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-1990
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1990
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Matei Zaharia
>              Labels: Starter
>             Fix For: 1.0.1, 1.1.0
>
>
> There were some posts on the lists that spark-ec2 does not work with Python 2.6. In addition, we should check the Python version at the top of the script and exit if it's too old.



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