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spark git commit: [SPARK-22980][PYTHON][SQL] Clarify the length of each series is of each batch within scalar Pandas UDF

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[SPARK-22980][PYTHON][SQL] Clarify the length of each series is of each batch within scalar Pandas UDF

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This PR proposes to add a note that saying the length of a scalar Pandas UDF's `Series` is not of the whole input column but of the batch.

We are fine for a group map UDF because the usage is different from our typical UDF but scalar UDFs might cause confusion with the normal UDF.

For example, please consider this example:

```python
from pyspark.sql.functions import pandas_udf, col, lit

df = spark.range(1)
f = pandas_udf(lambda x, y: len(x) + y, LongType())
df.select(f(lit('text'), col('id'))).show()
```

```
+------------------+
|<lambda>(text, id)|
+------------------+
|                 1|
+------------------+
```

```python
from pyspark.sql.functions import udf, col, lit

df = spark.range(1)
f = udf(lambda x, y: len(x) + y, "long")
df.select(f(lit('text'), col('id'))).show()
```

```
+------------------+
|<lambda>(text, id)|
+------------------+
|                 4|
+------------------+
```

## How was this patch tested?

Manually built the doc and checked the output.

Author: hyukjinkwon <gu...@gmail.com>

Closes #20237 from HyukjinKwon/SPARK-22980.


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Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: cd9f49a2aed3799964976ead06080a0f7044a0c3
Parents: 55dbfbc
Author: hyukjinkwon <gu...@gmail.com>
Authored: Sat Jan 13 16:13:44 2018 +0900
Committer: hyukjinkwon <gu...@gmail.com>
Committed: Sat Jan 13 16:13:44 2018 +0900

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 python/pyspark/sql/functions.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/spark/blob/cd9f49a2/python/pyspark/sql/functions.py
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diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/functions.py b/python/pyspark/sql/functions.py
index 733e32b..e1ad659 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/functions.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/functions.py
@@ -2184,6 +2184,11 @@ def pandas_udf(f=None, returnType=None, functionType=None):
        |         8|      JOHN DOE|          22|
        +----------+--------------+------------+
 
+       .. note:: The length of `pandas.Series` within a scalar UDF is not that of the whole input
+           column, but is the length of an internal batch used for each call to the function.
+           Therefore, this can be used, for example, to ensure the length of each returned
+           `pandas.Series`, and can not be used as the column length.
+
     2. GROUP_MAP
 
        A group map UDF defines transformation: A `pandas.DataFrame` -> A `pandas.DataFrame`


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