Github user zasdfgbnm commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18444#discussion_r128127304
  
    --- Diff: python/pyspark/sql/types.py ---
    @@ -938,12 +1016,17 @@ def _infer_type(obj):
                     return MapType(_infer_type(key), _infer_type(value), True)
             else:
                 return MapType(NullType(), NullType(), True)
    -    elif isinstance(obj, (list, array)):
    +    elif isinstance(obj, list):
             for v in obj:
                 if v is not None:
                     return ArrayType(_infer_type(obj[0]), True)
             else:
                 return ArrayType(NullType(), True)
    +    elif isinstance(obj, array):
    +        if obj.typecode in _array_type_mappings:
    +            return ArrayType(_array_type_mappings[obj.typecode](), False)
    +        else:
    +            raise TypeError("not supported type: array(%s)" % obj.typecode)
    --- End diff --
    
    Is there any reason to do so? I don't think array with unsupported typecode 
will be correctly serialized or deserialized. In this case, it would be better 
to raise an TypeError and let the user to pick another type.


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