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-rw-r--r--python/pyspark/sql/tests.py4
-rw-r--r--python/pyspark/sql/types.py2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/tests.py b/python/pyspark/sql/tests.py
index 86706e2dc4..7a55d801e4 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/tests.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/tests.py
@@ -333,6 +333,10 @@ class SQLTests(ReusedPySparkTestCase):
df = self.sqlCtx.inferSchema(rdd)
self.assertEquals(Row(field1=1, field2=u'row1'), df.first())
+ def test_select_null_literal(self):
+ df = self.sqlCtx.sql("select null as col")
+ self.assertEquals(Row(col=None), df.first())
+
def test_apply_schema(self):
from datetime import date, datetime
rdd = self.sc.parallelize([(127, -128, -32768, 32767, 2147483647, 1.0,
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/types.py b/python/pyspark/sql/types.py
index f75791fad1..10ad89ea14 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/types.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/types.py
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ class UserDefinedType(DataType):
_atomic_types = [StringType, BinaryType, BooleanType, DecimalType, FloatType, DoubleType,
- ByteType, ShortType, IntegerType, LongType, DateType, TimestampType]
+ ByteType, ShortType, IntegerType, LongType, DateType, TimestampType, NullType]
_all_atomic_types = dict((t.typeName(), t) for t in _atomic_types)
_all_complex_types = dict((v.typeName(), v)
for v in [ArrayType, MapType, StructType])