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-rw-r--r--python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py3
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diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py b/python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py
index 8e6bce9001..855c9d666f 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py
@@ -286,6 +286,9 @@ class DataFrameReader(object):
@since(1.6)
def text(self, paths):
"""Loads a text file and returns a [[DataFrame]] with a single string column named "value".
+ If the directory structure of the text files contains partitioning information,
+ those are ignored in the resulting DataFrame. To include partitioning information as
+ columns, use ``read.format('text').load(...)``.
Each line in the text file is a new row in the resulting DataFrame.