[SPARK-6781] [SQL] use sqlContext in python shell

Use `sqlContext` in PySpark shell, make it consistent with SQL programming guide. `sqlCtx` is also kept for compatibility.

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #5425 from davies/sqlCtx and squashes the following commits:

af67340 [Davies Liu] sqlCtx -> sqlContext
15a278f [Davies Liu] use sqlContext in python shell

(cherry picked from commit 6ada4f6f52cf1d992c7ab0c32318790cf08b0a0d)
Signed-off-by: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>

12 files changed, 69 insertions, 70 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ml-guide.md b/docs/ml-guide.md
index c08c76d226..771a07183e 100644
--- a/docs/ml-guide.md
+++ b/docs/ml-guide.md
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ from pyspark.ml.feature import HashingTF, Tokenizer
 from pyspark.sql import Row, SQLContext
 
 sc = SparkContext(appName="SimpleTextClassificationPipeline")
-sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc)
+sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
 
 # Prepare training documents, which are labeled.
 LabeledDocument = Row("id", "text", "label")
diff --git a/docs/sql-programming-guide.md b/docs/sql-programming-guide.md
index 4441d6a000..663f656883 100644
--- a/docs/sql-programming-guide.md
+++ b/docs/sql-programming-guide.md
@@ -1642,7 +1642,7 @@ moved into the udf object in `SQLContext`.
 <div data-lang="scala"  markdown="1">
 {% highlight java %}
 
-sqlCtx.udf.register("strLen", (s: String) => s.length())
+sqlContext.udf.register("strLen", (s: String) => s.length())
 
 {% endhighlight %}
 </div>
@@ -1650,7 +1650,7 @@ sqlCtx.udf.register("strLen", (s: String) => s.length())
 <div data-lang="java"  markdown="1">
 {% highlight java %}
 
-sqlCtx.udf().register("strLen", (String s) -> { s.length(); });
+sqlContext.udf().register("strLen", (String s) -> { s.length(); });
 
 {% endhighlight %}
 </div>
diff --git a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/sql/JavaSparkSQL.java b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/sql/JavaSparkSQL.java
index dee794840a..8159ffbe2d 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/sql/JavaSparkSQL.java
+++ b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/sql/JavaSparkSQL.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public class JavaSparkSQL {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
     SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("JavaSparkSQL");
     JavaSparkContext ctx = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
-    SQLContext sqlCtx = new SQLContext(ctx);
+    SQLContext sqlContext = new SQLContext(ctx);
 
     System.out.println("=== Data source: RDD ===");
     // Load a text file and convert each line to a Java Bean.
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ public class JavaSparkSQL {
       });
 
     // Apply a schema to an RDD of Java Beans and register it as a table.
-    DataFrame schemaPeople = sqlCtx.createDataFrame(people, Person.class);
+    DataFrame schemaPeople = sqlContext.createDataFrame(people, Person.class);
     schemaPeople.registerTempTable("people");
 
     // SQL can be run over RDDs that have been registered as tables.
-    DataFrame teenagers = sqlCtx.sql("SELECT name FROM people WHERE age >= 13 AND age <= 19");
+    DataFrame teenagers = sqlContext.sql("SELECT name FROM people WHERE age >= 13 AND age <= 19");
 
     // The results of SQL queries are DataFrames and support all the normal RDD operations.
     // The columns of a row in the result can be accessed by ordinal.
@@ -99,12 +99,12 @@ public class JavaSparkSQL {
     // Read in the parquet file created above.
     // Parquet files are self-describing so the schema is preserved.
     // The result of loading a parquet file is also a DataFrame.
-    DataFrame parquetFile = sqlCtx.parquetFile("people.parquet");
+    DataFrame parquetFile = sqlContext.parquetFile("people.parquet");
 
     //Parquet files can also be registered as tables and then used in SQL statements.
     parquetFile.registerTempTable("parquetFile");
     DataFrame teenagers2 =
-      sqlCtx.sql("SELECT name FROM parquetFile WHERE age >= 13 AND age <= 19");
+      sqlContext.sql("SELECT name FROM parquetFile WHERE age >= 13 AND age <= 19");
     teenagerNames = teenagers2.toJavaRDD().map(new Function<Row, String>() {
       @Override
       public String call(Row row) {
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ public class JavaSparkSQL {
     // The path can be either a single text file or a directory storing text files.
     String path = "examples/src/main/resources/people.json";
     // Create a DataFrame from the file(s) pointed by path
-    DataFrame peopleFromJsonFile = sqlCtx.jsonFile(path);
+    DataFrame peopleFromJsonFile = sqlContext.jsonFile(path);
 
     // Because the schema of a JSON dataset is automatically inferred, to write queries,
     // it is better to take a look at what is the schema.
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ public class JavaSparkSQL {
     // Register this DataFrame as a table.
     peopleFromJsonFile.registerTempTable("people");
 
-    // SQL statements can be run by using the sql methods provided by sqlCtx.
-    DataFrame teenagers3 = sqlCtx.sql("SELECT name FROM people WHERE age >= 13 AND age <= 19");
+    // SQL statements can be run by using the sql methods provided by sqlContext.
+    DataFrame teenagers3 = sqlContext.sql("SELECT name FROM people WHERE age >= 13 AND age <= 19");
 
     // The results of SQL queries are DataFrame and support all the normal RDD operations.
     // The columns of a row in the result can be accessed by ordinal.
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ public class JavaSparkSQL {
     List<String> jsonData = Arrays.asList(
           "{\"name\":\"Yin\",\"address\":{\"city\":\"Columbus\",\"state\":\"Ohio\"}}");
     JavaRDD<String> anotherPeopleRDD = ctx.parallelize(jsonData);
-    DataFrame peopleFromJsonRDD = sqlCtx.jsonRDD(anotherPeopleRDD.rdd());
+    DataFrame peopleFromJsonRDD = sqlContext.jsonRDD(anotherPeopleRDD.rdd());
 
     // Take a look at the schema of this new DataFrame.
     peopleFromJsonRDD.printSchema();
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ public class JavaSparkSQL {
 
     peopleFromJsonRDD.registerTempTable("people2");
 
-    DataFrame peopleWithCity = sqlCtx.sql("SELECT name, address.city FROM people2");
+    DataFrame peopleWithCity = sqlContext.sql("SELECT name, address.city FROM people2");
     List<String> nameAndCity = peopleWithCity.toJavaRDD().map(new Function<Row, String>() {
       @Override
       public String call(Row row) {
diff --git a/examples/src/main/python/ml/simple_text_classification_pipeline.py b/examples/src/main/python/ml/simple_text_classification_pipeline.py
index d281f4fa44..c73edb7fd6 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/python/ml/simple_text_classification_pipeline.py
+++ b/examples/src/main/python/ml/simple_text_classification_pipeline.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ pipeline in Python. Run with:
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     sc = SparkContext(appName="SimpleTextClassificationPipeline")
-    sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc)
+    sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
 
     # Prepare training documents, which are labeled.
     LabeledDocument = Row("id", "text", "label")
diff --git a/examples/src/main/python/mllib/dataset_example.py b/examples/src/main/python/mllib/dataset_example.py
index b5a70db2b9..fcbf56cbf0 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/python/mllib/dataset_example.py
+++ b/examples/src/main/python/mllib/dataset_example.py
@@ -44,19 +44,19 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         print >> sys.stderr, "Usage: dataset_example.py <libsvm file>"
         exit(-1)
     sc = SparkContext(appName="DatasetExample")
-    sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc)
+    sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
     if len(sys.argv) == 2:
         input = sys.argv[1]
     else:
         input = "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt"
     points = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc, input)
-    dataset0 = sqlCtx.inferSchema(points).setName("dataset0").cache()
+    dataset0 = sqlContext.inferSchema(points).setName("dataset0").cache()
     summarize(dataset0)
     tempdir = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False).name
     os.unlink(tempdir)
     print "Save dataset as a Parquet file to %s." % tempdir
     dataset0.saveAsParquetFile(tempdir)
     print "Load it back and summarize it again."
-    dataset1 = sqlCtx.parquetFile(tempdir).setName("dataset1").cache()
+    dataset1 = sqlContext.parquetFile(tempdir).setName("dataset1").cache()
     summarize(dataset1)
     shutil.rmtree(tempdir)
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/classification.py b/python/pyspark/ml/classification.py
index 4ff7463498..7f42de531f 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/ml/classification.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/classification.py
@@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     # The small batch size here ensures that we see multiple batches,
     # even in these small test examples:
     sc = SparkContext("local[2]", "ml.feature tests")
-    sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc)
+    sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
     globs['sc'] = sc
-    globs['sqlCtx'] = sqlCtx
+    globs['sqlContext'] = sqlContext
     (failure_count, test_count) = doctest.testmod(
         globs=globs, optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS)
     sc.stop()
diff --git a/python/pyspark/ml/feature.py b/python/pyspark/ml/feature.py
index 433b4fb5d2..1cfcd019df 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/ml/feature.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/ml/feature.py
@@ -117,9 +117,9 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     # The small batch size here ensures that we see multiple batches,
     # even in these small test examples:
     sc = SparkContext("local[2]", "ml.feature tests")
-    sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc)
+    sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
     globs['sc'] = sc
-    globs['sqlCtx'] = sqlCtx
+    globs['sqlContext'] = sqlContext
     (failure_count, test_count) = doctest.testmod(
         globs=globs, optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS)
     sc.stop()
diff --git a/python/pyspark/shell.py b/python/pyspark/shell.py
index 1a02fece9c..81aa970a32 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/shell.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/shell.py
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ atexit.register(lambda: sc.stop())
 try:
     # Try to access HiveConf, it will raise exception if Hive is not added
     sc._jvm.org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf()
-    sqlCtx = HiveContext(sc)
+    sqlCtx = sqlContext = HiveContext(sc)
 except py4j.protocol.Py4JError:
-    sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc)
+    sqlCtx = sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
 
 print("""Welcome to
       ____              __
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ print("Using Python version %s (%s, %s)" % (
     platform.python_version(),
     platform.python_build()[0],
     platform.python_build()[1]))
-print("SparkContext available as sc, %s available as sqlCtx." % sqlCtx.__class__.__name__)
+print("SparkContext available as sc, %s available as sqlContext." % sqlContext.__class__.__name__)
 
 if add_files is not None:
     print("Warning: ADD_FILES environment variable is deprecated, use --py-files argument instead")
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/context.py b/python/pyspark/sql/context.py
index c2d81ba804..93e2d176a5 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/context.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/context.py
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ except ImportError:
 __all__ = ["SQLContext", "HiveContext", "UDFRegistration"]
 
 
-def _monkey_patch_RDD(sqlCtx):
+def _monkey_patch_RDD(sqlContext):
     def toDF(self, schema=None, sampleRatio=None):
         """
         Converts current :class:`RDD` into a :class:`DataFrame`
 
-        This is a shorthand for ``sqlCtx.createDataFrame(rdd, schema, sampleRatio)``
+        This is a shorthand for ``sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd, schema, sampleRatio)``
 
         :param schema: a StructType or list of names of columns
         :param samplingRatio: the sample ratio of rows used for inferring
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def _monkey_patch_RDD(sqlCtx):
         >>> rdd.toDF().collect()
         [Row(name=u'Alice', age=1)]
         """
-        return sqlCtx.createDataFrame(self, schema, sampleRatio)
+        return sqlContext.createDataFrame(self, schema, sampleRatio)
 
     RDD.toDF = toDF
 
@@ -75,13 +75,13 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         """Creates a new SQLContext.
 
         >>> from datetime import datetime
-        >>> sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc)
+        >>> sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
         >>> allTypes = sc.parallelize([Row(i=1, s="string", d=1.0, l=1L,
         ...     b=True, list=[1, 2, 3], dict={"s": 0}, row=Row(a=1),
         ...     time=datetime(2014, 8, 1, 14, 1, 5))])
         >>> df = allTypes.toDF()
         >>> df.registerTempTable("allTypes")
-        >>> sqlCtx.sql('select i+1, d+1, not b, list[1], dict["s"], time, row.a '
+        >>> sqlContext.sql('select i+1, d+1, not b, list[1], dict["s"], time, row.a '
         ...            'from allTypes where b and i > 0').collect()
         [Row(c0=2, c1=2.0, c2=False, c3=2, c4=0...8, 1, 14, 1, 5), a=1)]
         >>> df.map(lambda x: (x.i, x.s, x.d, x.l, x.b, x.time,
@@ -133,18 +133,18 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         :param samplingRatio: lambda function
         :param returnType: a :class:`DataType` object
 
-        >>> sqlCtx.registerFunction("stringLengthString", lambda x: len(x))
-        >>> sqlCtx.sql("SELECT stringLengthString('test')").collect()
+        >>> sqlContext.registerFunction("stringLengthString", lambda x: len(x))
+        >>> sqlContext.sql("SELECT stringLengthString('test')").collect()
         [Row(c0=u'4')]
 
         >>> from pyspark.sql.types import IntegerType
-        >>> sqlCtx.registerFunction("stringLengthInt", lambda x: len(x), IntegerType())
-        >>> sqlCtx.sql("SELECT stringLengthInt('test')").collect()
+        >>> sqlContext.registerFunction("stringLengthInt", lambda x: len(x), IntegerType())
+        >>> sqlContext.sql("SELECT stringLengthInt('test')").collect()
         [Row(c0=4)]
 
         >>> from pyspark.sql.types import IntegerType
-        >>> sqlCtx.udf.register("stringLengthInt", lambda x: len(x), IntegerType())
-        >>> sqlCtx.sql("SELECT stringLengthInt('test')").collect()
+        >>> sqlContext.udf.register("stringLengthInt", lambda x: len(x), IntegerType())
+        >>> sqlContext.sql("SELECT stringLengthInt('test')").collect()
         [Row(c0=4)]
         """
         func = lambda _, it: imap(lambda x: f(*x), it)
@@ -229,26 +229,26 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         :param samplingRatio: the sample ratio of rows used for inferring
 
         >>> l = [('Alice', 1)]
-        >>> sqlCtx.createDataFrame(l).collect()
+        >>> sqlContext.createDataFrame(l).collect()
         [Row(_1=u'Alice', _2=1)]
-        >>> sqlCtx.createDataFrame(l, ['name', 'age']).collect()
+        >>> sqlContext.createDataFrame(l, ['name', 'age']).collect()
         [Row(name=u'Alice', age=1)]
 
         >>> d = [{'name': 'Alice', 'age': 1}]
-        >>> sqlCtx.createDataFrame(d).collect()
+        >>> sqlContext.createDataFrame(d).collect()
         [Row(age=1, name=u'Alice')]
 
         >>> rdd = sc.parallelize(l)
-        >>> sqlCtx.createDataFrame(rdd).collect()
+        >>> sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd).collect()
         [Row(_1=u'Alice', _2=1)]
-        >>> df = sqlCtx.createDataFrame(rdd, ['name', 'age'])
+        >>> df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd, ['name', 'age'])
         >>> df.collect()
         [Row(name=u'Alice', age=1)]
 
         >>> from pyspark.sql import Row
         >>> Person = Row('name', 'age')
         >>> person = rdd.map(lambda r: Person(*r))
-        >>> df2 = sqlCtx.createDataFrame(person)
+        >>> df2 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(person)
         >>> df2.collect()
         [Row(name=u'Alice', age=1)]
 
@@ -256,11 +256,11 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         >>> schema = StructType([
         ...    StructField("name", StringType(), True),
         ...    StructField("age", IntegerType(), True)])
-        >>> df3 = sqlCtx.createDataFrame(rdd, schema)
+        >>> df3 = sqlContext.createDataFrame(rdd, schema)
         >>> df3.collect()
         [Row(name=u'Alice', age=1)]
 
-        >>> sqlCtx.createDataFrame(df.toPandas()).collect()  # doctest: +SKIP
+        >>> sqlContext.createDataFrame(df.toPandas()).collect()  # doctest: +SKIP
         [Row(name=u'Alice', age=1)]
         """
         if isinstance(data, DataFrame):
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ class SQLContext(object):
 
         Temporary tables exist only during the lifetime of this instance of :class:`SQLContext`.
 
-        >>> sqlCtx.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
+        >>> sqlContext.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
         """
         if (df.__class__ is DataFrame):
             self._ssql_ctx.registerDataFrameAsTable(df._jdf, tableName)
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         >>> parquetFile = tempfile.mkdtemp()
         >>> shutil.rmtree(parquetFile)
         >>> df.saveAsParquetFile(parquetFile)
-        >>> df2 = sqlCtx.parquetFile(parquetFile)
+        >>> df2 = sqlContext.parquetFile(parquetFile)
         >>> sorted(df.collect()) == sorted(df2.collect())
         True
         """
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         >>> shutil.rmtree(jsonFile)
         >>> with open(jsonFile, 'w') as f:
         ...     f.writelines(jsonStrings)
-        >>> df1 = sqlCtx.jsonFile(jsonFile)
+        >>> df1 = sqlContext.jsonFile(jsonFile)
         >>> df1.printSchema()
         root
          |-- field1: long (nullable = true)
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         ...     StructField("field2", StringType()),
         ...     StructField("field3",
         ...         StructType([StructField("field5", ArrayType(IntegerType()))]))])
-        >>> df2 = sqlCtx.jsonFile(jsonFile, schema)
+        >>> df2 = sqlContext.jsonFile(jsonFile, schema)
         >>> df2.printSchema()
         root
          |-- field2: string (nullable = true)
@@ -386,11 +386,11 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         If the schema is provided, applies the given schema to this JSON dataset.
         Otherwise, it samples the dataset with ratio ``samplingRatio`` to determine the schema.
 
-        >>> df1 = sqlCtx.jsonRDD(json)
+        >>> df1 = sqlContext.jsonRDD(json)
         >>> df1.first()
         Row(field1=1, field2=u'row1', field3=Row(field4=11, field5=None), field6=None)
 
-        >>> df2 = sqlCtx.jsonRDD(json, df1.schema)
+        >>> df2 = sqlContext.jsonRDD(json, df1.schema)
         >>> df2.first()
         Row(field1=1, field2=u'row1', field3=Row(field4=11, field5=None), field6=None)
 
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         ...     StructField("field3",
         ...                 StructType([StructField("field5", ArrayType(IntegerType()))]))
         ... ])
-        >>> df3 = sqlCtx.jsonRDD(json, schema)
+        >>> df3 = sqlContext.jsonRDD(json, schema)
         >>> df3.first()
         Row(field2=u'row1', field3=Row(field5=None))
         """
@@ -480,8 +480,8 @@ class SQLContext(object):
     def sql(self, sqlQuery):
         """Returns a :class:`DataFrame` representing the result of the given query.
 
-        >>> sqlCtx.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
-        >>> df2 = sqlCtx.sql("SELECT field1 AS f1, field2 as f2 from table1")
+        >>> sqlContext.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
+        >>> df2 = sqlContext.sql("SELECT field1 AS f1, field2 as f2 from table1")
         >>> df2.collect()
         [Row(f1=1, f2=u'row1'), Row(f1=2, f2=u'row2'), Row(f1=3, f2=u'row3')]
         """
@@ -490,8 +490,8 @@ class SQLContext(object):
     def table(self, tableName):
         """Returns the specified table as a :class:`DataFrame`.
 
-        >>> sqlCtx.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
-        >>> df2 = sqlCtx.table("table1")
+        >>> sqlContext.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
+        >>> df2 = sqlContext.table("table1")
         >>> sorted(df.collect()) == sorted(df2.collect())
         True
         """
@@ -505,8 +505,8 @@ class SQLContext(object):
         The returned DataFrame has two columns: ``tableName`` and ``isTemporary``
         (a column with :class:`BooleanType` indicating if a table is a temporary one or not).
 
-        >>> sqlCtx.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
-        >>> df2 = sqlCtx.tables()
+        >>> sqlContext.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
+        >>> df2 = sqlContext.tables()
         >>> df2.filter("tableName = 'table1'").first()
         Row(tableName=u'table1', isTemporary=True)
         """
@@ -520,10 +520,10 @@ class SQLContext(object):
 
         If ``dbName`` is not specified, the current database will be used.
 
-        >>> sqlCtx.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
-        >>> "table1" in sqlCtx.tableNames()
+        >>> sqlContext.registerDataFrameAsTable(df, "table1")
+        >>> "table1" in sqlContext.tableNames()
         True
-        >>> "table1" in sqlCtx.tableNames("db")
+        >>> "table1" in sqlContext.tableNames("db")
         True
         """
         if dbName is None:
@@ -578,11 +578,11 @@ class HiveContext(SQLContext):
 class UDFRegistration(object):
     """Wrapper for user-defined function registration."""
 
-    def __init__(self, sqlCtx):
-        self.sqlCtx = sqlCtx
+    def __init__(self, sqlContext):
+        self.sqlContext = sqlContext
 
     def register(self, name, f, returnType=StringType()):
-        return self.sqlCtx.registerFunction(name, f, returnType)
+        return self.sqlContext.registerFunction(name, f, returnType)
 
     register.__doc__ = SQLContext.registerFunction.__doc__
 
@@ -595,13 +595,12 @@ def _test():
     globs = pyspark.sql.context.__dict__.copy()
     sc = SparkContext('local[4]', 'PythonTest')
     globs['sc'] = sc
-    globs['sqlCtx'] = sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc)
+    globs['sqlContext'] = SQLContext(sc)
     globs['rdd'] = rdd = sc.parallelize(
         [Row(field1=1, field2="row1"),
          Row(field1=2, field2="row2"),
          Row(field1=3, field2="row3")]
     )
-    _monkey_patch_RDD(sqlCtx)
     globs['df'] = rdd.toDF()
     jsonStrings = [
         '{"field1": 1, "field2": "row1", "field3":{"field4":11}}',
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
index c30326ebd1..ef91a9c4f5 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class DataFrame(object):
         >>> parquetFile = tempfile.mkdtemp()
         >>> shutil.rmtree(parquetFile)
         >>> df.saveAsParquetFile(parquetFile)
-        >>> df2 = sqlCtx.parquetFile(parquetFile)
+        >>> df2 = sqlContext.parquetFile(parquetFile)
         >>> sorted(df2.collect()) == sorted(df.collect())
         True
         """
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ class DataFrame(object):
         that was used to create this :class:`DataFrame`.
 
         >>> df.registerTempTable("people")
-        >>> df2 = sqlCtx.sql("select * from people")
+        >>> df2 = sqlContext.sql("select * from people")
         >>> sorted(df.collect()) == sorted(df2.collect())
         True
         """
@@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ def _test():
     globs = pyspark.sql.dataframe.__dict__.copy()
     sc = SparkContext('local[4]', 'PythonTest')
     globs['sc'] = sc
-    globs['sqlCtx'] = SQLContext(sc)
+    globs['sqlContext'] = SQLContext(sc)
     globs['df'] = sc.parallelize([(2, 'Alice'), (5, 'Bob')])\
         .toDF(StructType([StructField('age', IntegerType()),
                           StructField('name', StringType())]))
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/functions.py b/python/pyspark/sql/functions.py
index 146ba6f3e0..daeb6916b5 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/functions.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/functions.py
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ def _test():
     globs = pyspark.sql.functions.__dict__.copy()
     sc = SparkContext('local[4]', 'PythonTest')
     globs['sc'] = sc
-    globs['sqlCtx'] = SQLContext(sc)
+    globs['sqlContext'] = SQLContext(sc)
     globs['df'] = sc.parallelize([Row(name='Alice', age=2), Row(name='Bob', age=5)]).toDF()
     (failure_count, test_count) = doctest.testmod(
         pyspark.sql.functions, globs=globs,
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/types.py b/python/pyspark/sql/types.py
index 45eb8b945d..7e0124b136 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/types.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/types.py
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ def _parse_datatype_json_string(json_string):
     >>> def check_datatype(datatype):
     ...     pickled = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(datatype))
     ...     assert datatype == pickled
-    ...     scala_datatype = sqlCtx._ssql_ctx.parseDataType(datatype.json())
+    ...     scala_datatype = sqlContext._ssql_ctx.parseDataType(datatype.json())
     ...     python_datatype = _parse_datatype_json_string(scala_datatype.json())
     ...     assert datatype == python_datatype
     >>> for cls in _all_primitive_types.values():
@@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@ def _test():
     globs = pyspark.sql.types.__dict__.copy()
     sc = SparkContext('local[4]', 'PythonTest')
     globs['sc'] = sc
-    globs['sqlCtx'] = sqlCtx = SQLContext(sc)
+    globs['sqlContext'] = SQLContext(sc)
     globs['ExamplePoint'] = ExamplePoint
     globs['ExamplePointUDT'] = ExamplePointUDT
     (failure_count, test_count) = doctest.testmod(