The sc.StorageLevel -> StorageLevel pathway is a bit janky, but otherwise
the shell would have to call a private method of SparkContext. Having
StorageLevel available in sc also doesn't seem like the end of the world.
There may be a better solution, though.
As for creating the StorageLevel object itself, this seems to be the best
way in Python 2 for creating singleton, enum-like objects:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36932/how-can-i-represent-an-enum-in-python
This commit makes Spark invocation saner by using an assembly JAR to
find all of Spark's dependencies instead of adding all the JARs in
lib_managed. It also packages the examples into an assembly and uses
that as SPARK_EXAMPLES_JAR. Finally, it replaces the old "run" script
with two better-named scripts: "run-examples" for examples, and
"spark-class" for Spark internal classes (e.g. REPL, master, etc). This
is also designed to minimize the confusion people have in trying to use
"run" to run their own classes; it's not meant to do that, but now at
least if they look at it, they can modify run-examples to do a decent
job for them.
As part of this, Bagel's examples are also now properly moved to the
examples package instead of bagel.
This addresses SPARK-885, a usability issue where PySpark's
Java gateway process would be killed if the user hit ctrl-c.
Note that SIGINT still won't cancel the running s
This fix is based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5045771
This fixes SPARK-832, an issue where PySpark
would not work when the master and workers used
different SPARK_HOME paths.
This change may potentially break code that relied
on the master's PYTHONPATH being used on workers.
To have custom PYTHONPATH additions used on the
workers, users should set a custom PYTHONPATH in
spark-env.sh rather than setting it in the shell.
One unfortunate consequence of this fix is that we materialize any
collections that are given to us as generators, but this seems necessary
to get reasonable behavior on small collections. We could add a
batchSize parameter later to bypass auto-computation of batch size if
this becomes a problem (e.g. if users really want to parallelize big
generators nicely)
The problem was that the gateway was being initialized whenever the
pyspark.context module was loaded. The fix uses lazy initialization
that occurs only when SparkContext instances are actually constructed.
I also made the gateway and jvm variables private.
This change results in ~3-4x performance improvement when running the
PySpark unit tests.
cloudpickle runs into issues while pickling subclasses of AccumulatorParam,
which may be related to this Python issue:
http://bugs.python.org/issue7689
This seems hard to fix and the ABCMeta wasn't necessary, so I removed it.
PythonPartitioner did not take the Python-side partitioning function
into account when checking for equality, which might cause problems
in the future.
