zero323 commented on a change in pull request #31238:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/31238#discussion_r576751923



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File path: python/pyspark/exceptions.py
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+#
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+
+class NonDriverReferenceError(Exception):
+    """
+    Thrown when trying to reference a driver's value or attribute in a non 
driver environment.
+    """
+
+
+class JavaGatewayError(Exception):
+    """
+        Indicates an error of the java gateway.
+    """
+
+
+class SparkContextInitializationError(RuntimeError):

Review comment:
       Just my two cents ‒ while adding more specific exception classes can be 
useful, especially in contexts where we might expect user to recover, there is 
little point in building hierarchy for types of conditions which are 
effectively a programming mistake.
   
   For example `NonDriverReferenceError` refers to condition, from which there 
is no meaningful way out. Such cases should rather provide human readable 
description of the problem, so user can easily identify and fix the issue 
(@HyukjinKwon  and others already did a lot of work in that direction). 
Similarly `JavaGatewayErrors` are typically fatal and there is little that user 
can do there, without tinkering with internals.




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