[GitHub] [spark] HyukjinKwon commented on a diff in pull request #40534: [SPARK-42908][PYTHON] Raise RuntimeError if SparkContext is not initialized when parsing DDL-formatted type strings

["HyukjinKwon (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

HyukjinKwon commented on code in PR #40534:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/40534#discussion_r1146116074


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python/pyspark/sql/types.py:
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@@ -1211,7 +1211,10 @@ def _parse_datatype_string(s: str) -> DataType:
     from pyspark import SparkContext
 
     sc = SparkContext._active_spark_context
-    assert sc is not None

Review Comment:
   In fact, we should fix a lot of this places in, e.g., `pyspark.sql.functions.*` too .. 



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