Github user holdenk commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/11211#discussion_r92932905
--- Diff: python/pyspark/context.py ---
@@ -163,10 +163,8 @@ def _do_init(self, master, appName, sparkHome,
pyFiles, environment, batchSize,
if k.startswith("spark.executorEnv."):
varName = k[len("spark.executorEnv."):]
self.environment[varName] = v
- if sys.version >= '3.3' and 'PYTHONHASHSEED' not in os.environ:
- # disable randomness of hash of string in worker, if this is
not
- # launched by spark-submit
- self.environment["PYTHONHASHSEED"] = "0"
+
+ self.environment["PYTHONHASHSEED"] =
os.environ.get("PYTHONHASHSEED", "0")
--- End diff --
It's a bit of a stretch, but if a user has another Python application that
is producing hashed data with a fixed seed (say a flask app), a user _might_
want to set this to the same value.
---
If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your
reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature
enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please
contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket
with INFRA.
---
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org
