Colabtools: Python 3.8 support (and Ubuntu 20.04)

[segatrade]

Bug report for Colab: http://colab.research.google.com/.

• Describe the current behavior:
  It's impossible to use Python 3.8:
  1) Some tools require Python >3.7.
  2) Python 3.8 is faster than 3.6.
  3) Python 3.6 End of full support since 2018-12-24.
  4) Ubuntu 20.04 LTS available with default Python 3.8 and will be main OS on servers for next 2 years.

• Describe the expected behavior:
  Python 3.8 is available in Colab.

[colaboratory-team]

No ETA at this time, but tracked internally as b/112544213.

[datametrician]

+1

[segatrade]

this getting more and more complicated to avoid python 3.7/3.8:

numba.core.errors.UnsupportedError: Failed in nopython mode pipeline (step: analyzing bytecode)
'try' block not supported until python3.7 or later

numba is the one of the best solutions with python perfomance, especially with cuda. It's a pity that py 3.7/3.8 still unavailable in colab. There is any updates?

Thank you!

[johnnync13]

@colaboratory-team then, since it is a bit late , you could to update directly to python 3.9

[habanoz]

Python upgrade is needed. Please act.

[segatrade]

@colaboratory-team then, since it is a bit late , you could to update directly to python 3.9

Python 3.9 possible not all library support it well and it's 3.9.0 - not so mature.
3.8 is sweetspot (3.8.6 is prod stable) or at least 3.7.
But anyway 3.6 already obsolete

[johnnync13]

@segatrade yes, 3.9 not support all libraries but the best thing would be to put it on and let everyone use the version they want.