### What changes were proposed in this pull request?
This PR aims to drop Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5.
Roughly speaking, it removes all the widely known Python 2 compatibility workarounds such as `sys.version` comparison, `__future__`. Also, it removes the Python 2 dedicated codes such as `ArrayConstructor` in Spark.
### Why are the changes needed?
1. Unsupport EOL Python versions
2. Reduce maintenance overhead and remove a bit of legacy codes and hacks for Python 2.
3. PyPy2 has a critical bug that causes a flaky test, SPARK-28358 given my testing and investigation.
4. Users can use Python type hints with Pandas UDFs without thinking about Python version
5. Users can leverage one latest cloudpickle, https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/28950. With Python 3.8+ it can also leverage C pickle.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Yes, users cannot use Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 in the upcoming Spark version.
### How was this patch tested?
Manually tested and also tested in Jenkins.
Closes#28957 from HyukjinKwon/SPARK-32138.
Authored-by: HyukjinKwon <gurwls223@apache.org>
Signed-off-by: HyukjinKwon <gurwls223@apache.org>
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
add `SparseMatrix` class whick support pickler.
## How was this patch tested?
Existing test.
Author: WeichenXu <WeichenXu123@outlook.com>
Closes#14265 from WeichenXu123/picklable_py.
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Issue: Omitting the full classpath can cause problems when calling JVM methods or classes from pyspark.
This PR: Changed all uses of jvm.X in pyspark.ml and pyspark.mllib to use full classpath for X
## How was this patch tested?
Existing unit tests. Manual testing in an environment where this was an issue.
Author: Joseph K. Bradley <joseph@databricks.com>
Closes#14023 from jkbradley/SPARK-16348.
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Now we have PySpark picklers for new and old vector/matrix, individually. However, they are all implemented under `PythonMLlibAPI`. To separate spark.mllib from spark.ml, we should implement the picklers of new vector/matrix under `spark.ml.python` instead.
## How was this patch tested?
Existing tests.
Author: Liang-Chi Hsieh <simonh@tw.ibm.com>
Closes#13219 from viirya/pyspark-pickler-ml.