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Where can I find a list of Databricks runtime versions and their corresponding Python versions?

fijoy — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 22:26:45 GMT

I'm surprised this is not easily available, I checked this page for example: https://docs.databricks.com/release-notes/runtime/releases.html

Re: Where can I find a list of Databricks runtime versions and their corresponding Python versions?

pvignesh92 — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:19:27 GMT

@fijoy Hi, You have to check the System Environment section in the release notes. You can get the Python version there.

https://docs.databricks.com/release-notes/runtime/13.1.html#system-environment

Re: Where can I find a list of Databricks runtime versions and their corresponding Python versions?

fijoy — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:43:21 GMT

The System Environment section is inconsistent.

I wanted to find a runtime that has Python 3.8.*.

I inferred through trial and error that runtime 10.4 has that Python version, but it's not documented here:

https://docs.databricks.com/release-notes/runtime/10.4ml.html#system-environment

The Python version for each runtime needs to be lot easier to find.

Re: Where can I find a list of Databricks runtime versions and their corresponding Python versions?

karthik_p — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:57:31 GMT

@fijoy use %pip list in notebook and it should show libraries installed

Re: Where can I find a list of Databricks runtime versions and their corresponding Python versions?

fijoy — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 21:09:40 GMT

That's what I ended up doing. In order to do that however, I need to create clusters with different Databricks runtimes and choose the latest runtime that had Python 3.8.*. It was a lot more work than I anticipated.

I think the Databricks docs should be a lot clearer.