Github user rxin commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4528#discussion_r24480267 --- Diff: python/pyspark/sql/context.py --- @@ -336,19 +353,28 @@ def createDataFrame(self, rdd, schema=None, samplingRatio=None): >>> df3.collect() [Row(name=u'Alice', age=1)] """ - if isinstance(rdd, DataFrame): + if isinstance(data, DataFrame): raise TypeError("rdd is already a DataFrame") - if isinstance(schema, StructType): - return self.applySchema(rdd, schema) - else: - if isinstance(schema, (list, tuple)): - first = rdd.first() - if not isinstance(first, (list, tuple)): - raise ValueError("each row in `rdd` should be list or tuple") - row_cls = Row(*schema) - rdd = rdd.map(lambda r: row_cls(*r)) - return self.inferSchema(rdd, samplingRatio) + if has_pandas and isinstance(data, pandas.DataFrame): + data = self._sc.parallelize(data.to_records(index=False)) + if schema is None: + schema = list(data.columns) + + if not isinstance(data, RDD): + data = self._sc.parallelize(data) --- End diff -- can we provide more type checking? e.g. throw a TypeError if data is not the proper type. maybe do that check in the very beginning.
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