This patch bring the pull based progress API into Python, also a example in Python.
Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>
Closes#3027 from davies/progress_api and squashes the following commits:
b1ba984 [Davies Liu] fix style
d3b9253 [Davies Liu] add tests, mute the exception after stop
4297327 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into progress_api
969fa9d [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into progress_api
25590c9 [Davies Liu] update with Java API
360de2d [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into progress_api
c0f1021 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into progress_api
023afb3 [Davies Liu] add Python API and example for progress API