[SPARK-2101] Python unit tests fail on Python 2.6 because of lack of unittest.skipIf()

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.3, 1.0.3, 1.1.0
• Component/s: PySpark
• Assignee: Josh Rosen
• Reporter: Uri Laserson
• Created: 10/Jun/14 22:05
• Updated: 09/Jan/15 17:50
• Resolved: 11/Aug/14 18:56

Description

PySpark tests fail with Python 2.6 because they currently depend on unittest.skipIf, which was only introduced in Python 2.7.

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-2910 Test with Python 2.6 on Jenkins
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #1042 (laserson)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #1874 (JoshRosen)