Upgrade HDInsight Python Version

Question

I know that HDInsight is using Python 3.5, but is there a way to upgrade the minor version to Python 3.6 or above? The reason is that we have a third party package which only works on Python 3.6 or above.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/spark/apache-spark-python-package-installation

The documentation did not mention about how to do that. Or is it allowed to upgrade at all?

Answer 1

Hello @HenryX ,

It's not recommended as using non-cluster built-in Python versions are unsupported scenario.

WARNING!: HDInsight cluster depends on the built-in Python environment - Python 3.5. Directly installing custom packages in those default built-in environments may cause unexpected library version changes. And break the cluster further.

If you want to install, you can use Python 3.6, change “python=3.5” in this command to python=3.6, and follow the rest steps in the document works.

sudo /usr/bin/anaconda/bin/conda create --prefix /usr/bin/anaconda/envs/py36new python=3.6 anaconda –yes  

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

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Answer 2

Hi @PRADEEPCHEEKATLA-MSFT ,

Python 3.5 has reached end of life the 5th of September, 2020 with the release of version 3.5.10
PyCharm has also marked this version as unsupported.

Do you think that the version of Python will be upgraded in the next release of HDInsight ? And when will it happen ?

Regards

Answer 3

FYI My way to upd

Custom script on github.com for script acrions with code like it. It can fails on first/second run, just examle

#!/bin/bash
# !!! It _POSSIBE_ code for fix AZ hdinsight nodes for new spark 3 and upd to python3.7
set -e -x

sudo -s

# install python 3.7
add-apt-repository -y ppa:deadsnakes/ppa || true
apt update || true
apt install -y python3.7
apt install -y python3.7-dev
apt install -y libcairo2-dev

rm /usr/bin/python3
rm /usr/bin/python3-config 
rm /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyYAML*
rm -rf /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/yaml
ln -s /usr/bin/python3.7 /usr/bin/python3
ln -s /usr/bin/python3.7-config /usr/bin/python3-config

# install packages
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools || true
python3 -m pip install wheel || true
python3 -m pip install pypandoc==1.5 PyYAML==5.3.1 || true
python3 -m pip install pandas==1.1.2 spacy==2.3.4 kmodes==0.10.2 numpy==1.19.4 metaphone==0.6 unidecode==1.1.1 StringDist==1.0.9 rapidfuzz==0.13.4 urltools==0.4.0 nltk==3.5 phonenumbers==8.12.14 python-dateutil==2.8.1 dateparser==1.0.0 datefinder==0.7.1 geotext==0.4.0 scikit-learn==0.23.2 || true
python3 -m pip install pyhocon==0.3.51 pyspark==3.0.1 findspark==1.4.2 wordninja==2.0.0 pyspellchecker==0.5.5 cleanco==2.0.1 gensim==3.8.3 scipy==1.5.4 sympy==1.7 nose==1.3.7 PyYAML==5.3.1 || true
python3 -m pip install --force-reinstall --upgrade adal==1.2.5 requests==2.25.0 requests_toolbelt==0.9.1 pyOpenSSL==20.0.0 cryptography==3.2.1 || true
python3 -m pip install six==1.15.0 pyasn1-modules==0.2.8 || true
python3 -m pip install boto3
python3 -m pip install pyJWT==1.7.1 --upgrade
python3 -m pip install pyap pyarrow==0.17.1 pyspark-patch==0.0.6 zipp==1.0.0 pycairo==1.13.4 recordlinkage==0.14  dython==0.6.2 || true
python3 -m spacy download en_core_web_sm || true
python3 -m spacy download en_core_web_md || true
python3 -m nltk.downloader punkt || true
mv -v /root/nltk_data/ /usr/share || true
python3 -m nltk.downloader averaged_perceptron_tagger || true
python3 -m nltk.downloader stopwords || true

# upd to real pyspark==3.0.1
#mv /usr/hdp/current/spark3-client/python/pyspark /usr/hdp/current/spark3-client/python/pyspark-old
cp -r  /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pyspark /usr/hdp/current/spark3-client/python

# Patch
sudo python3 /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pyspark-patch/unzip.py --file /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pyspark-patch/pyspark_sql_session.zip --dest /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pyspark-patch --password pyspArkp@tch
sudo cp -v /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pyspark-patch/pyspark_sql_types.py /usr/hdp/current/spark3-client/python/pyspark/sql/types.py || true
sudo cp -v /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pyspark-patch/pyspark_sql_dataframe.py /usr/hdp/current/spark3-client/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py || true
sudo cp -v /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pyspark-patch/pyspark_sql_session.py /usr/hdp/current/spark3-client/python/pyspark/sql/session.py || true
sudo cp -v /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pyspark-patch/pyspark_sql_context.py /usr/hdp/current/spark3-client/python/pyspark/sql/context.py || true

#May be req to upd /usr/hdp/current/spark3-client/conf/spark-defaults.conf for spark.yarn.appMasterEnv.PYSPARK3_PYTHON /usr/bin/python3

Answer 4

Is there any update on whether HDInsights supports new Python versions? Its been more than a year and the documentation still says Python 3.5.