Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/455#issuecomment-44794147
Regarding docs, there's now a longer section on data import in the
programming guide
(http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/programming-guide.html#external-datasets),
so you can add it to the Python part of that. Eventually we should probably
split out data loading into a separate doc, with tutorials for HBase,
Cassandra, etc.
Regarding PythonConverter, it's fine to make it experimental for now.
Ideally we would look at it and keep it forever though. It's a simple enough
interface (given an Object, return another Object) that we can probably keep it
indefinitely, even if we later come up with a nicer / more optimized one.
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