[GitHub] [spark] HyukjinKwon commented on a diff in pull request #36640: [SPARK-39262][PYTHON] Correct the behavior of creating DataFrame from an RDD

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HyukjinKwon commented on code in PR #36640:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/36640#discussion_r886780576


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python/pyspark/sql/session.py:
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@@ -611,8 +611,8 @@ def _inferSchema(
         :class:`pyspark.sql.types.StructType`
         """
         first = rdd.first()
-        if not first:
-            raise ValueError("The first row in RDD is empty, " "can not infer schema")
+        if first is None:

Review Comment:
   It cannot infer the type from `None` or `""`. It has to be either a list, dictionary or `Row` instance.



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