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

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18734#discussion_r130774005
  
    --- Diff: python/pyspark/cloudpickle.py ---
    @@ -220,12 +322,7 @@ def save_function(self, obj, name=None):
     
             if name is None:
                 name = obj.__name__
    -        try:
    -            # whichmodule() could fail, see
    -            # 
https://bitbucket.org/gutworth/six/issues/63/importing-six-breaks-pickling
    -            modname = pickle.whichmodule(obj, name)
    -        except Exception:
    -            modname = None
    +        modname = pickle.whichmodule(obj, name)
    --- End diff --
    
    It's a good question, the underlying issue was marked resolved in 2014 and 
from looking at the commit it seems like it should actually be resolved. That 
being said its true some people might be on a system installed with an old 
verison of six so perhaps we should keep this workaround.


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