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Takuya Ueshin commented on SPARK-23290:
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Thanks for the report!

I'm afraid I couldn't figure out what's going on because your example is 
something wrong.

In your first example, the dtype of {{pdf['date']}} seems {{object}}, but the 
actual type is {{str}}:

{code:python}
>>> pdf = pd.DataFrame([['2015-01-01',1]], columns=['date', 'num'])
>>> pdf.dtypes
date    object
num      int64
dtype: object
>>> type(pdf['date'][0])
<type 'str'>
{code}

So the lambda should work because the function in the lambda is for string type:

{code:python}
>>> pdf['date'].apply(lambda d: dt.datetime.strptime(d, '%Y-%m-%d').date() )
0    2015-01-01
Name: date, dtype: object
{code}

Whereas Spark returns {{datetime.date}} in 2.2 and {{pd.Timestamp}} in 2.3:

{code:python}
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('2015-01-01', 1)], ['date', 
>>> 'num']).selectExpr("cast(date as date)", "num")
>>> df.printSchema()
root
 |-- date: date (nullable = true)
 |-- num: long (nullable = true)

>>> df.show()
+----------+---+
|      date|num|
+----------+---+
|2015-01-01|  1|
+----------+---+
{code}

in 2.2:

{code:python}
>>> pdf = df.toPandas()
>>> pdf.dtypes
date    object
num      int64
dtype: object
>>> type(pdf['date'][0])
<type 'datetime.date'>
{code}

in 2.3:

{code:python}
>>> pdf = df.toPandas()
>>> pdf.dtypes
date    datetime64[ns]
num              int64
dtype: object
>>> type(pdf['date'][0])
<class 'pandas._libs.tslib.Timestamp'>
{code}

In this case, the lambda shouldn't work anyway.

Could you provide some other example to elaborate the problem?

IIUC, {{datetime.date}} and {{pd.Timestamp}} are kind of compatible, so we can 
handle them in the same way. cc: [~bryanc]

Thanks!


> inadvertent change in handling of DateType when converting to pandas dataframe
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-23290
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-23290
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: PySpark
>    Affects Versions: 2.3.0
>            Reporter: Andre Menck
>            Priority: Blocker
>
> In [this 
> PR|https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18664/files#diff-6fc344560230bf0ef711bb9b5573f1faR1968]
>  there was a change in how `DateType` is being returned to users (line 1968 
> in dataframe.py). This can cause client code to fail, as in the following 
> example from a python terminal:
> {code:python}
> >>> pdf = pd.DataFrame([['2015-01-01',1]], columns=['date', 'num'])
> >>> pdf.dtypes
> date    object
> num      int64
> dtype: object
> >>> pdf['date'].apply(lambda d: dt.datetime.strptime(d, '%Y-%m-%d').date() )
> 0    2015-01-01
> Name: date, dtype: object
> >>> pdf = pd.DataFrame([['2015-01-01',1]], columns=['date', 'num'])
> >>> pdf.dtypes
> date    object
> num      int64
> dtype: object
> >>> pdf['date'] = pd.to_datetime(pdf['date'])
> >>> pdf.dtypes
> date    datetime64[ns]
> num              int64
> dtype: object
> >>> pdf['date'].apply(lambda d: dt.datetime.strptime(d, '%Y-%m-%d').date() )
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File 
> "/Users/amenck/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pandas/core/series.py", 
> line 2355, in apply
>     mapped = lib.map_infer(values, f, convert=convert_dtype)
>   File "pandas/_libs/src/inference.pyx", line 1574, in 
> pandas._libs.lib.map_infer
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <lambda>
> TypeError: strptime() argument 1 must be string, not Timestamp
> >>> 
> {code}
> Above we show both the old behavior (returning an "object" col) and the new 
> behavior (returning a datetime column). Since there may be user code relying 
> on the old behavior, I'd suggest reverting this specific part of this change. 
> Also note that the NOTE on the docstring for the "_to_corrected_pandas_type" 
> seems to be off, referring to the old behavior and not the current one.



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