Github user mateiz commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1551#discussion_r15569391
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/python/PythonRDD.scala
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@@ -344,7 +345,12 @@ private[spark] object PythonRDD extends Logging {
throw new SparkException("Unexpected Tuple2 element type " +
pair._1.getClass)
}
case other =>
- throw new SparkException("Unexpected element type " +
first.getClass)
+ if (other == null) {
+ dataOut.writeInt(SpecialLengths.NULL)
+ writeIteratorToStream(iter, dataOut)
--- End diff --
BTW apart from the stability issue above with catching our own bugs, the
reason I'm commenting is that this change also adds some moderately tricky code
in a fairly important code path, increasing the chance of adding new bugs. That
doesn't seem worth it to me.
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