Github user davies commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/6686#discussion_r32806501
--- Diff: python/pyspark/sql/types.py ---
@@ -56,6 +56,32 @@ def __eq__(self, other):
def __ne__(self, other):
return not self.__eq__(other)
+ def from_string(self, data_type):
+ assert(isinstance(data_type, str))
+
+ if data_type == "byte":
+ return "ByteType"
+ elif data_type == "long":
+ return "LongType"
+ elif data_type == "float":
+ return "FloatType"
+ elif data_type == "int" or data_type == "integer":
+ return "IntegerType"
+ elif data_type == "double" or data_type == "numeric":
+ return "DoubleType"
+ elif data_type == "string" or data_type == "character":
--- End diff --
This is Python, we don't need to have R types here (numeric and character)
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