Ah, yes, I clearly didn't read closely enough! It was right there in front of me...
Thanks! On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 12:36 PM Maciej Szymkiewicz <mszymkiew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Please note that `_sc` is not a SQLContext. It is a SparkContext, which > is used primarily for internal calls. > > SQLContext is exposed through `sql_ctx` > ( > https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/8bfaa62f2fcc942dd99a63b20366167277bce2a1/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py#L80 > ) > > On 3/17/20 5:53 PM, Ben Roling wrote: > > I tried this on the users mailing list but didn't get traction. It's > > probably more appropriate here anyway. > > > > I've noticed that DataSet.sqlContext is public in Scala but the > > equivalent (DataFrame._sc) in PySpark is named as if it should be > > treated as private. > > > > Is this intentional? If so, what's the rationale? If not, then it > > feels like a bug and DataFrame should have some form of public access > > back to the context/session. I'm happy to log the bug but thought I > > would ask here first. Thanks! > > -- > Best regards, > Maciej Szymkiewicz > > Web: https://zero323.net > Keybase: https://keybase.io/zero323 > Gigs: https://www.codementor.io/@zero323 > PGP: C095AA7F33E6123A > > >