Github user kanzhang commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1338#issuecomment-50108287 Uploaded a new patch adding batch serialization to Python when reading sequence files. For some reason, the test on custom class (Java Bean) no longer works and I disabled it. I suspect it's a bug in Pyrolite or Pickle. Also addressed Josh's comments.
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