HyukjinKwon commented on a change in pull request #33882:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/33882#discussion_r699854668



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File path: python/pyspark/pandas/namespace.py
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@@ -2814,9 +2824,18 @@ def to_numeric(arg):
     1.0
     """
     if isinstance(arg, Series):
-        return arg._with_new_scol(arg.spark.column.cast("float"))
+        if errors == "coerce":
+            return arg._with_new_scol(arg.spark.column.cast("int"))
+        elif errors == "ignore":
+            scol = arg.spark.column
+            casted_scol = scol.cast("int")
+            return arg._with_new_scol(F.when(casted_scol.isNull(), 
scol).otherwise(casted_scol))

Review comment:
       when errors is `ignore`, it should return the input as is per the 
documentation. The problem is the type coercion will happen via Spark. For 
example, it throws an exception if you call `pd.to_numeric` with 
`datetime.datetime`s whereas pandas returns the input as is.




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