[SPARK-53696][PYTHON]Default to bytes
for BinaryType
in PySpark UDF
#52438
+259
−60
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What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Based on #52370, I propose to default the type for
BINARY
in PySpark UDF to pythonbytes
, instead ofbytearray
.Provide a spark conf to opt out of this change.
Why are the changes needed?
bytes
is is immutable, hashable, and requires zero copy from Arrow. It is more performant thanbytearray
.Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
Yes.
Binary
data will be treated asbytes
. Any attempt to modify the input data will fail asbytes
is immutable.How was this patch tested?
Was this patch authored or co-authored using generative AI tooling?
No