The reason it wasn't working was passing a bytearray to stream.write(), which is not supported in Python 2.6 but is in 2.7. (This array came from NumPy when we converted data to send it over to Java). Now we just convert those bytearrays to strings of bytes, which preserves nonprintable characters as well.

Author: Matei Zaharia <matei@databricks.com>

Closes #335 from mateiz/mllib-python-2.6 and squashes the following commits:

f26c59f [Matei Zaharia] Update docs to no longer say we need Python 2.7
a84d6af [Matei Zaharia] SPARK-1421. Make MLlib work on Python 2.6

Move the PR#468 of apache-incubator-spark to the apache-spark
"Adding an option to persist Spark RDD blocks into Tachyon."

Author: Haoyuan Li <haoyuan@cs.berkeley.edu>
Author: RongGu <gurongwalker@gmail.com>

Closes #158 from RongGu/master and squashes the following commits:

72b7768 [Haoyuan Li] merge master
9f7fa1b [Haoyuan Li] fix code style
ae7834b [Haoyuan Li] minor cleanup
a8b3ec6 [Haoyuan Li] merge master branch
e0f4891 [Haoyuan Li] better check offheap.
55b5918 [RongGu] address matei's comment on the replication of offHeap storagelevel
7cd4600 [RongGu] remove some logic code for tachyonstore's replication
51149e7 [RongGu] address aaron's comment on returning value of the remove() function in tachyonstore
8adfcfa [RongGu] address arron's comment on inTachyonSize
120e48a [RongGu] changed the root-level dir name in Tachyon
5cc041c [Haoyuan Li] address aaron's comments
9b97935 [Haoyuan Li] address aaron's comments
d9a6438 [Haoyuan Li] fix for pspark
77d2703 [Haoyuan Li] change python api.git status
3dcace4 [Haoyuan Li] address matei's comments
91fa09d [Haoyuan Li] address patrick's comments
589eafe [Haoyuan Li] use TRY_CACHE instead of MUST_CACHE
64348b2 [Haoyuan Li] update conf docs.
ed73e19 [Haoyuan Li] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:RongGu/spark-1
619a9a8 [RongGu] set number of directories in TachyonStore back to 64; added a TODO tag for duplicated code from the DiskStore
be79d77 [RongGu] find a way to clean up some unnecessay metods and classed to make the code simpler
49cc724 [Haoyuan Li] update docs with off_headp option
4572f9f [RongGu] reserving the old apply function API of StorageLevel
04301d3 [RongGu] rename StorageLevel.TACHYON to Storage.OFF_HEAP
c9aeabf [RongGu] rename the StorgeLevel.TACHYON as StorageLevel.OFF_HEAP
76805aa [RongGu] unifies the config properties name prefix; add the configs into docs/configuration.md
e700d9c [RongGu] add the SparkTachyonHdfsLR example and some comments
fd84156 [RongGu] use randomUUID to generate sparkapp directory name on tachyon;minor code style fix
939e467 [Haoyuan Li] 0.4.1-thrift from maven central
86a2eab [Haoyuan Li] tachyon 0.4.1-thrift is in the staging repo. but jenkins failed to download it. temporarily revert it back to 0.4.1
16c5798 [RongGu] make the dependency on tachyon as tachyon-0.4.1-thrift
eacb2e8 [RongGu] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/RongGu/spark-1
bbeb4de [RongGu] fix the JsonProtocolSuite test failure problem
6adb58f [RongGu] Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/RongGu/spark-1
d827250 [RongGu] fix JsonProtocolSuie test failure
716e93b [Haoyuan Li] revert the version
ca14469 [Haoyuan Li] bump tachyon version to 0.4.1-thrift
2825a13 [RongGu] up-merging to the current master branch of the apache spark
6a22c1a [Haoyuan Li] fix scalastyle
8968b67 [Haoyuan Li] exclude more libraries from tachyon dependency to be the same as referencing tachyon-client.
77be7e8 [RongGu] address mateiz's comment about the temp folder name problem. The implementation followed mateiz's advice.
1dcadf9 [Haoyuan Li] typo
bf278fa [Haoyuan Li] fix python tests
e82909c [Haoyuan Li] minor cleanup
776a56c [Haoyuan Li] address patrick's and ali's comments from the previous PR
8859371 [Haoyuan Li] various minor fixes and clean up
e3ddbba [Haoyuan Li] add doc to use Tachyon cache mode.
fcaeab2 [Haoyuan Li] address Aaron's comment
e554b1e [Haoyuan Li] add python code
47304b3 [Haoyuan Li] make tachyonStore in BlockMananger lazy val; add more comments StorageLevels.
dc8ef24 [Haoyuan Li] add old storelevel constructor
e01a271 [Haoyuan Li] update tachyon 0.4.1
8011a96 [RongGu] fix a brought-in mistake in StorageLevel
70ca182 [RongGu] a bit change in comment
556978b [RongGu] fix the scalastyle errors
791189b [RongGu] "Adding an option to persist Spark RDD blocks into Tachyon." move the PR#468 of apache-incubator-spark to the apache-spark

Also clarified comment on each file having to fit in memory

Author: Matei Zaharia <matei@databricks.com>

Closes #327 from mateiz/py-whole-files and squashes the following commits:

9ad64a5 [Matei Zaharia] SPARK-1414. Python API for SparkContext.wholeTextFiles

Since python does not have a library for max heap and usual tricks like inverting values etc.. does not work for all cases.

We have our own implementation of max heap.

Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>

Closes #97 from ScrapCodes/SPARK-1162/pyspark-top-takeOrdered2 and squashes the following commits:

35f86ba [Prashant Sharma] code review
2b1124d [Prashant Sharma] fixed tests
e8a08e2 [Prashant Sharma] Code review comments.
49e6ba7 [Prashant Sharma] SPARK-1162 added takeOrdered to pyspark

In PR https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/117, we added dense/sparse vector data model and updated KMeans to support sparse input. This PR is to replace all other `Array[Double]` usage by `Vector` in generalized linear models (GLMs) and Naive Bayes. Major changes:

1. `LabeledPoint` becomes `LabeledPoint(Double, Vector)`.
2. Methods that accept `RDD[Array[Double]]` now accept `RDD[Vector]`. We cannot support both in an elegant way because of type erasure.
3. Mark 'createModel' and 'predictPoint' protected because they are not for end users.
4. Add libSVMFile to MLContext.
5. NaiveBayes can accept arbitrary labels (introducing a breaking change to Python's `NaiveBayesModel`).
6. Gradient computation no longer creates temp vectors.
7. Column normalization and centering are removed from Lasso and Ridge because the operation will densify the data. Simple feature transformation can be done before training.

TODO:
1. ~~Use axpy when possible.~~
2. ~~Optimize Naive Bayes.~~

Author: Xiangrui Meng <meng@databricks.com>

Closes #245 from mengxr/vector and squashes the following commits:

eb6e793 [Xiangrui Meng] move libSVMFile to MLUtils and rename to loadLibSVMData
c26c4fc [Xiangrui Meng] update DecisionTree to use RDD[Vector]
11999c7 [Xiangrui Meng] Merge branch 'master' into vector
f7da54b [Xiangrui Meng] add minSplits to libSVMFile
da25e24 [Xiangrui Meng] revert the change to default addIntercept because it might change the behavior of existing code without warning
493f26f [Xiangrui Meng] Merge branch 'master' into vector
7c1bc01 [Xiangrui Meng] add a TODO to NB
b9b7ef7 [Xiangrui Meng] change default value of addIntercept to false
b01df54 [Xiangrui Meng] allow to change or clear threshold in LR and SVM
4addc50 [Xiangrui Meng] merge master
4ca5b1b [Xiangrui Meng] remove normalization from Lasso and update tests
f04fe8a [Xiangrui Meng] remove normalization from RidgeRegression and update tests
d088552 [Xiangrui Meng] use static constructor for MLContext
6f59eed [Xiangrui Meng] update libSVMFile to determine number of features automatically
3432e84 [Xiangrui Meng] update NaiveBayes to support sparse data
0f8759b [Xiangrui Meng] minor updates to NB
b11659c [Xiangrui Meng] style update
78c4671 [Xiangrui Meng] add libSVMFile to MLContext
f0fe616 [Xiangrui Meng] add a test for sparse linear regression
44733e1 [Xiangrui Meng] use in-place gradient computation
e981396 [Xiangrui Meng] use axpy in Updater
db808a1 [Xiangrui Meng] update JavaLR example
befa592 [Xiangrui Meng] passed scala/java tests
75c83a4 [Xiangrui Meng] passed test compile
1859701 [Xiangrui Meng] passed compile
834ada2 [Xiangrui Meng] optimized MLUtils.computeStats update some ml algorithms to use Vector (cont.)
135ab72 [Xiangrui Meng] merge glm
0e57aa4 [Xiangrui Meng] update Lasso and RidgeRegression to parse the weights correctly from GLM mark createModel protected mark predictPoint protected
d7f629f [Xiangrui Meng] fix a bug in GLM when intercept is not used
3f346ba [Xiangrui Meng] update some ml algorithms to use Vector

Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>
Author: Prashant Sharma <scrapcodes@gmail.com>

Closes #262 from ScrapCodes/SPARK-1336/ReduceVerbosity and squashes the following commits:

87dfa54 [Prashant Sharma] Further reduction in noise and made pyspark tests to fail fast.
811170f [Prashant Sharma] Reducing the ouput of run-tests script.

Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>

Closes #235 from ScrapCodes/SPARK-1322/top-rev-sort and squashes the following commits:

f316266 [Prashant Sharma] Minor change in comment.
58e58c6 [Prashant Sharma] SPARK-1322, top in pyspark should sort result in descending order.

Doctest added for map in rdd.py

Author: Jyotiska NK <jyotiska123@gmail.com>

Closes #177 from jyotiska/pyspark_rdd_map_doctest and squashes the following commits:

a38527f [Jyotiska NK] Added doctest for map function in rdd.py

Here's the addition of min and max to statscounter.py and min and max methods to rdd.py.

Author: Dan McClary <dan.mcclary@gmail.com>

Closes #144 from dwmclary/SPARK-1246-add-min-max-to-stat-counter and squashes the following commits:

fd3fd4b [Dan McClary] fixed  error, updated test
82cde0e [Dan McClary] flipped incorrectly assigned inf values in StatCounter
5d96799 [Dan McClary] added max and min to StatCounter repr for pyspark
21dd366 [Dan McClary] added max and min to StatCounter output, updated doc
1a97558 [Dan McClary] added max and min to StatCounter output, updated doc
a5c13b0 [Dan McClary] Added min and max to Scala and Java RDD, added min and max to StatCounter
ed67136 [Dan McClary] broke min/max out into separate transaction, added to rdd.py
1e7056d [Dan McClary] added underscore to getBucket
37a7dea [Dan McClary] cleaned up boundaries for histogram -- uses real min/max when buckets are derived
29981f2 [Dan McClary] fixed indentation on doctest comment
eaf89d9 [Dan McClary] added correct doctest for histogram
4916016 [Dan McClary] added histogram method, added max and min to statscounter

https://spark-project.atlassian.net/browse/SPARK-1240

It seems that the current implementation does not handle the empty RDD case when run takeSample

In this patch, before calling sample() inside takeSample API, I add a checker for this case and returns an empty Array when it's a empty RDD; also in sample(), I add a checker for the invalid fraction value

In the test case, I also add several lines for this case

Author: CodingCat <zhunansjtu@gmail.com>

Closes #135 from CodingCat/SPARK-1240 and squashes the following commits:

fef57d4 [CodingCat] fix the same problem in PySpark
36db06b [CodingCat] create new test cases for takeSample from an empty red
810948d [CodingCat] further fix
a40e8fb [CodingCat] replace if with require
ad483fd [CodingCat] handle the case with empty RDD when take sample

Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>

Closes #93 from ScrapCodes/SPARK-1162/pyspark-top-takeOrdered and squashes the following commits:

ece1fa4 [Prashant Sharma] Added top in python.

Author: prabinb <prabin.banka@imaginea.com>

Closes #92 from prabinb/python-api-rdd and squashes the following commits:

51129ca [prabinb] Added missing Python RDD functions Added __repr__ function to StorageLevel class. Added doctest for RDD.getStorageLevel().

Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>

Closes #115 from ScrapCodes/SPARK-1168/pyspark-foldByKey and squashes the following commits:

db6f67e [Prashant Sharma] SPARK-1168, Added foldByKey to pyspark.

Author: jyotiska <jyotiska123@gmail.com>

Closes #34 from jyotiska/pyspark_code and squashes the following commits:

c9439be [jyotiska] replaced dict with namedtuple
a6bf4cd [jyotiska] added callsite info for context.py

was raised earlier as a part of  apache/incubator-spark#486

Author: Prabin Banka <prabin.banka@imaginea.com>

Closes #76 from prabinb/python-api-zip and squashes the following commits:

b1a31a0 [Prabin Banka] Added Python RDD.zip function

(Continued from old repo, prior discussion at https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/615)

This patch cements our deprecation of the SPARK_MEM environment variable by replacing it with three more specialized variables:
SPARK_DAEMON_MEMORY, SPARK_EXECUTOR_MEMORY, and SPARK_DRIVER_MEMORY

The creation of the latter two variables means that we can safely set driver/job memory without accidentally setting the executor memory. Neither is public.

SPARK_EXECUTOR_MEMORY is only used by the Mesos scheduler (and set within SparkContext). The proper way of configuring executor memory is through the "spark.executor.memory" property.

SPARK_DRIVER_MEMORY is the new way of specifying the amount of memory run by jobs launched by spark-class, without possibly affecting executor memory.

Other memory considerations:
- The repl's memory can be set through the "--drivermem" command-line option, which really just sets SPARK_DRIVER_MEMORY.
- run-example doesn't use spark-class, so the only way to modify examples' memory is actually an unusual use of SPARK_JAVA_OPTS (which is normally overriden in all cases by spark-class).

This patch also fixes a lurking bug where spark-shell misused spark-class (the first argument is supposed to be the main class name, not java options), as well as a bug in the Windows spark-class2.cmd. I have not yet tested this patch on either Windows or Mesos, however.

Author: Aaron Davidson <aaron@databricks.com>

Closes #99 from aarondav/sparkmem and squashes the following commits:

9df4c68 [Aaron Davidson] SPARK-929: Fully deprecate usage of SPARK_MEM

Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>
Author: Prashant Sharma <scrapcodes@gmail.com>

Closes #80 from ScrapCodes/SPARK-1165/RDD.intersection and squashes the following commits:

9b015e9 [Prashant Sharma] Added a note, shuffle is required for intersection.
1fea813 [Prashant Sharma] correct the lines wrapping
d0c71f3 [Prashant Sharma] SPARK-1165 RDD.intersection in java
d6effee [Prashant Sharma] SPARK-1165 Implemented RDD.intersection in python.

The following Python APIs are added,
RDD.id()
SparkContext.setJobGroup()
SparkContext.setLocalProperty()
SparkContext.getLocalProperty()
SparkContext.sparkUser()

was raised earlier as a part of  apache/incubator-spark#486

Author: Prabin Banka <prabin.banka@imaginea.com>

Closes #75 from prabinb/python-api-backup and squashes the following commits:

cc3c6cd [Prabin Banka] Added missing Python APIs

Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>

Closes #73 from ScrapCodes/SPARK-1109/wrong-API-docs and squashes the following commits:

1a55b58 [Prashant Sharma] SPARK-1109 wrong API docs for pyspark map function

This surroungs the complete worker code in a try/except block so we catch any error that arrives. An example would be the depickling failing for some reason

@JoshRosen

Author: Bouke van der Bijl <boukevanderbijl@gmail.com>

Closes #644 from bouk/catch-depickling-errors and squashes the following commits:

f0f67cc [Bouke van der Bijl] Lol indentation
0e4d504 [Bouke van der Bijl] Surround the complete python worker with the try block

Updated doctests for mapValues and flatMapValues in rdd.py

Author: jyotiska <jyotiska123@gmail.com>

Closes #621 from jyotiska/python_spark and squashes the following commits:

716f7cd [jyotiska] doctest updated for mapValues, flatMapValues in rdd.py

Fixed minor typo in worker.py

Author: jyotiska <jyotiska123@gmail.com>

Closes #630 from jyotiska/pyspark_code and squashes the following commits:

ee44201 [jyotiska] typo fixed in worker.py

Patch to allow PySpark to use existing JVM and Gateway. Changes to PySpark implementation of SparkConf to take existing SparkConf JVM handle. Change to PySpark SparkContext to allow subclass specific context initialization.

Author: Ahir Reddy <ahirreddy@gmail.com>

Closes #622 from ahirreddy/pyspark-existing-jvm and squashes the following commits:

a86f457 [Ahir Reddy] Patch to allow PySpark to use existing JVM and Gateway. Changes to PySpark implementation of SparkConf to take existing SparkConf JVM handle. Change to PySpark SparkContext to allow subclass specific context initialization.

Added example Python code for sort

I added an example Python code for sort. Right now, PySpark has limited examples for new people willing to use the project. This example code sorts integers stored in a file. I was able to sort 5 million, 10 million and 25 million integers with this code.

Author: jyotiska <jyotiska123@gmail.com>

== Merge branch commits ==

commit 8ad8faf6c8e02ae1cd68565d98524edf165f54df
Author: jyotiska <jyotiska123@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 9 11:00:41 2014 +0530

    Added comments in code on collect() method

commit 6f98f1e313f4472a7c2207d36c4f0fbcebc95a8c
Author: jyotiska <jyotiska123@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 8 13:12:37 2014 +0530

    Updated python example code sort.py

commit 945e39a5d68daa7e5bab0d96cbd35d7c4b04eafb
Author: jyotiska <jyotiska123@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Feb 8 12:59:09 2014 +0530

    Added example python code for sort

Version number to 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

Since 0.9.0-incubating is done and out the door, we shouldn't be building 0.9.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT anymore.

@pwendell

Author: Mark Hamstra <markhamstra@gmail.com>

== Merge branch commits ==

commit 1b00a8a7c1a7f251b4bb3774b84b9e64758eaa71
Author: Mark Hamstra <markhamstra@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Feb 5 09:30:32 2014 -0800

    Version number to 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

Python api additions

Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>

== Merge branch commits ==

commit 8b51591f1a7a79a62c13ee66ff8d83040f7eccd8
Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 24 11:50:29 2014 +0530

    Josh's and Patricks review comments.

commit d37f9677838e43bef6c18ef61fbf08055ba6d1ca
Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 23 17:27:17 2014 +0530

    fixed doc tests

commit 27cb54bf5c99b1ea38a73858c291d0a1c43d8b7c
Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 23 16:48:43 2014 +0530

    Added keys and values methods for PairFunctions in python

commit 4ce76b396fbaefef2386d7a36d611572bdef9b5d
Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 23 13:51:26 2014 +0530

    Added foreachPartition

commit 05f05341a187cba829ac0e6c2bdf30be49948c89
Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 23 13:02:59 2014 +0530

    Added coalesce fucntion to python API

commit 6568d2c2fa14845dc56322c0f39ba2e13b3b26dd
Author: Prashant Sharma <prashant.s@imaginea.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 23 12:52:44 2014 +0530

    added repartition function to python API.

This fixes SPARK-1043, a bug introduced in 0.9.0
where PySpark couldn't serialize strings > 64kB.

This fix was written by @tyro89 and @bouk in #512.
This commit squashes and rebases their pull request
in order to fix some merge conflicts.

Also, replace the last reference to it in the docs.

This fixes SPARK-1026.

Remove Typesafe Config usage and conf files to fix nested property names

With Typesafe Config we had the subtle problem of no longer allowing
nested property names, which are used for a few of our properties:
http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Config-properties-broken-in-master-td208.html



This PR is for branch 0.9 but should be added into master too.
(cherry picked from commit 34e911ce)

Signed-off-by: Patrick Wendell <pwendell@gmail.com>

This helps in case the exception happened while serializing a record to
be sent to Java, leaving the stream to Java in an inconsistent state
where PythonRDD won't be able to read the error.

We've used camel case in other Spark methods so it felt reasonable to
keep using it here and make the code match Scala/Java as much as
possible. Note that parameter names matter in Python because it allows
passing optional parameters by name.

- Added a Python wrapper for Naive Bayes
- Updated the Scala Naive Bayes to match the style of our other
  algorithms better and in particular make it easier to call from Java
  (added builder pattern, removed default value in train method)
- Updated Python MLlib functions to not require a SparkContext; we can
  get that from the RDD the user gives
- Added a toString method in LabeledPoint
- Made the Python MLlib tests run as part of run-tests as well (before
  they could only be run individually through each file)