You don't need encoders in python since its all dynamically typed anyway. You can just do the following if you want the data as a string.
sqlContext.read.text("/home/spark/1.6/lines").rdd.map(lambda row: row.value)
2017-04-01 5:36 GMT-07:00 Selvam Raman <sel...@gmail.com>:
> In Scala,
> val ds = sqlContext.read.text("/home/spark/1.6/lines").as[String]
>
> what is the equivalent code in pyspark?
>
> --
> Selvam Raman
> "லஞ்சம் தவிர்த்து நெஞ்சம் நிமிர்த்து"
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