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From:
Elizabeth Mattijsen
Date:
September 9, 2022 18:35
Subject:
Re: Using Inline::Python
Message ID:
5E53D8FB-AC53-4506-AA93-0025D2DF3123@dijkmat.nl
To rule out any REPL artefacts, do you see the same thing if you put the code in a script and run the script?
> On 9 Sep 2022, at 20:17, Sean McAfee <eefacm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello--
>
> I recently started playing around with PySpark. It soon occurred to me that it would be a lot more fun to work in Raku instead of Python, and I recalled that it's supposed to be possible to get handles to Python objects from Raku and call methods on them seamlessly, so I tried to make it happen. I got pretty far, but now I'm stymied. Here are the steps I can take in the Raku interpreter:
>
> > use Inline::Python
> Nil
> > my \python = Inline::Python.new
> Inline::Python.new
>
> Self-explanatory.
>
> > python.run('from pyspark.sql import SparkSession')
> (Any)
>
> No errors, that looks promising...
>
> > my \spark = python.run('SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()', :eval)
> ... spam from initialization of Spark session deleted...
> Inline::Python::PythonObject.new(ptr => NativeCall::Types::Pointer.new(4461193984), python => Inline::Python.new)
>
> Now we're getting somewhere! (I had to source-dive to guess that I needed that :eval; without it, an Any is returned.)
>
> > my \sql = spark.sql('select 1+1')
> []
>
> Uh...what? I was expecting to get another Python object back, a DataFrame. (I think; I'm much more familiar with the Scala interface to Spark.) Instead I have an empty array.
>
> Even more puzzlingly, if I re-run that last statement, I get an error: "instance has no attribute 'sql'". If I re-run the statement over and over, the response alternates between an empty array and that error.
>
> Does anyone have any insight into what's going on?
>
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