Github user andrewor14 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/13289#discussion_r64620005 --- Diff: python/pyspark/sql/session.py --- @@ -138,24 +138,37 @@ def getOrCreate(self): """Gets an existing :class:`SparkSession` or, if there is no existing one, creates a new one based on the options set in this builder. - This method first checks whether there is a valid thread-local SparkSession, - and if yes, return that one. It then checks whether there is a valid global - default SparkSession, and if yes, return that one. If no valid global default - SparkSession exists, the method creates a new SparkSession and assigns the - newly created SparkSession as the global default. + This method first checks whether there is a valid global default SparkSession, and if + yes, return that one. If no valid global default SparkSession exists, the method + creates a new SparkSession and assigns the newly created SparkSession as the global + default. + + >>> s1 = SparkSession.builder.config("k1", "v1").getOrCreate() + >>> s1.conf.get("k1") == "v1" + True In case an existing SparkSession is returned, the config options specified in this builder will be applied to the existing SparkSession. + + >>> s2 = SparkSession.builder.config("k2", "v2").getOrCreate() + >>> s1.conf.get("k1") == s2.conf.get("k1") + True + >>> s1.conf.get("k2") == s2.conf.get("k2") + True """ with self._lock: - from pyspark.conf import SparkConf from pyspark.context import SparkContext - from pyspark.sql.context import SQLContext - sparkConf = SparkConf() + from pyspark.conf import SparkConf + session = SparkSession._instantiatedContext + if session is None: + sparkConf = SparkConf() + for key, value in self._options.items(): + sparkConf.set(key, value) + sc = SparkContext.getOrCreate(sparkConf) + session = SparkSession(sc) --- End diff -- actually before this line we might have to explicitly set the confs through `sc.conf.set`, since the `SparkContext` may be an existing one. There was a patch that did this for scala recently: 01e7b9c85bb84924e279021f9748774dce9702c8
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