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-rw-r--r--python/pyspark/context.py5
-rw-r--r--python/pyspark/tests.py4
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/python/pyspark/context.py b/python/pyspark/context.py
index 1f2b40b29f..aeb7ad4f2f 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/context.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/context.py
@@ -292,6 +292,11 @@ class SparkContext(object):
return self._jsc.version()
@property
+ def startTime(self):
+ """Return the epoch time when the Spark Context was started."""
+ return self._jsc.startTime()
+
+ @property
def defaultParallelism(self):
"""
Default level of parallelism to use when not given by user (e.g. for
diff --git a/python/pyspark/tests.py b/python/pyspark/tests.py
index d8e319994c..f9fb37f7fc 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/tests.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/tests.py
@@ -1809,6 +1809,10 @@ class ContextTests(unittest.TestCase):
sc.stop()
+ def test_startTime(self):
+ with SparkContext() as sc:
+ self.assertGreater(sc.startTime, 0)
+
@unittest.skipIf(not _have_scipy, "SciPy not installed")
class SciPyTests(PySparkTestCase):