[SPARK-2627] [PySpark] have the build enforce PEP 8 automatically

As described in [SPARK-2627](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2627), we'd like Python code to automatically be checked for PEP 8 compliance by Jenkins. This pull request aims to do that.

Notes:
* We may need to install [`pep8`](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pep8) on the build server.
* I'm expecting tests to fail now that PEP 8 compliance is being checked as part of the build. I'm fine with cleaning up any remaining PEP 8 violations as part of this pull request.
* I did not understand why the RAT and scalastyle reports are saved to text files. I did the same for the PEP 8 check, but only so that the console output style can match those for the RAT and scalastyle checks. The PEP 8 report is removed right after the check is complete.
* Updates to the ["Contributing to Spark"](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Contributing+to+Spark) guide will be submitted elsewhere, as I don't believe that text is part of the Spark repo.

Author: Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.chammas@gmail.com>
Author: nchammas <nicholas.chammas@gmail.com>

Closes apache#1744 from nchammas/master and squashes the following commits:

274b238 [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] [PySpark] minor indentation changes
983d963 [nchammas] Merge pull request apache#5 from apache/master
1db5314 [nchammas] Merge pull request apache#4 from apache/master
0e0245f [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] undo erroneous whitespace fixes
bf30942 [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] PEP8: comment spacing
6db9a44 [nchammas] Merge pull request apache#3 from apache/master
7b4750e [Nicholas Chammas] merge upstream changes
91b7584 [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] undo unnecessary line breaks
44e3e56 [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] use tox.ini to exclude files
b09fae2 [Nicholas Chammas] don't wrap comments unnecessarily
bfb9f9f [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] keep up with the PEP 8 fixes
9da347f [nchammas] Merge pull request apache#2 from apache/master
aa5b4b5 [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] follow Spark bash style for if blocks
d0a83b9 [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] check that pep8 downloaded fine
dffb5dd [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] download pep8 at runtime
a1ce7ae [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] space out test report sections
21da538 [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] it's PEP 8, not PEP8
6f4900b [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] more misc PEP 8 fixes
fe57ed0 [Nicholas Chammas] removing merge conflict backups
9c01d4c [nchammas] Merge pull request apache#1 from apache/master
9a66cb0 [Nicholas Chammas] resolving merge conflicts
a31ccc4 [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] miscellaneous PEP 8 fixes
beaa9ac [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] fail check on non-zero status
723ed39 [Nicholas Chammas] always delete the report file
0541ebb [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] call Python linter from run-tests
12440fa [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] add Scala linter
61c07b9 [Nicholas Chammas] [SPARK-2627] add Python linter
75ad552 [Nicholas Chammas] make check output style consistent

dev/lint-python

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "$0" )" && pwd )"
+SPARK_ROOT_DIR="$(dirname $SCRIPT_DIR)"
+PEP8_REPORT_PATH="$SPARK_ROOT_DIR/dev/pep8-report.txt"
+
+cd $SPARK_ROOT_DIR
+
+# Get pep8 at runtime so that we don't rely on it being installed on the build server.
+#+ See: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1744#issuecomment-50982162
+#+ TODOs:
+#+  - Dynamically determine latest release version of pep8 and use that.
+#+  - Download this from a more reliable source. (GitHub raw can be flaky, apparently. (?))
+PEP8_SCRIPT_PATH="$SPARK_ROOT_DIR/dev/pep8.py"
+PEP8_SCRIPT_REMOTE_PATH="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jcrocholl/pep8/1.5.7/pep8.py"
+
+curl --silent -o "$PEP8_SCRIPT_PATH" "$PEP8_SCRIPT_REMOTE_PATH"    
+curl_status=$?
+
+if [ $curl_status -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Failed to download pep8.py from \"$PEP8_SCRIPT_REMOTE_PATH\"."
+    exit $curl_status
+fi
+
+
+# There is no need to write this output to a file
+#+ first, but we do so so that the check status can
+#+ be output before the report, like with the
+#+ scalastyle and RAT checks.
+python $PEP8_SCRIPT_PATH ./python > "$PEP8_REPORT_PATH"
+pep8_status=${PIPESTATUS[0]} #$?
+
+if [ $pep8_status -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "PEP 8 checks failed."
+    cat "$PEP8_REPORT_PATH"
+else
+    echo "PEP 8 checks passed."
+fi
+
+rm -f "$PEP8_REPORT_PATH"
+rm "$PEP8_SCRIPT_PATH"
+
+exit $pep8_status

dev/lint-scala

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "$0" )" && pwd )"
+SPARK_ROOT_DIR="$(dirname $SCRIPT_DIR)"
+
+"$SCRIPT_DIR/scalastyle"

dev/run-tests

@@ -66,16 +66,25 @@ fi
 set -e
 set -o pipefail
 
+echo ""
 echo "========================================================================="
 echo "Running Apache RAT checks"
 echo "========================================================================="
 dev/check-license
 
+echo ""
 echo "========================================================================="
 echo "Running Scala style checks"
 echo "========================================================================="
-dev/scalastyle
+dev/lint-scala
 
+echo ""
+echo "========================================================================="
+echo "Running Python style checks"
+echo "========================================================================="
+dev/lint-python
+
+echo ""
 echo "========================================================================="
 echo "Running Spark unit tests"
 echo "========================================================================="
@@ -89,11 +98,13 @@ fi
 echo -e "q\n" | sbt/sbt $SBT_MAVEN_PROFILES_ARGS clean package assembly/assembly test | \
   grep -v -e "info.*Resolving" -e "warn.*Merging" -e "info.*Including"
 
+echo ""
 echo "========================================================================="
 echo "Running PySpark tests"
 echo "========================================================================="
 ./python/run-tests
 
+echo ""
 echo "========================================================================="
 echo "Detecting binary incompatibilites with MiMa"
 echo "========================================================================="

dev/scalastyle

@@ -30,5 +30,5 @@ if test ! -z "$ERRORS"; then
     echo -e "Scalastyle checks failed at following occurrences:\n$ERRORS"
     exit 1
 else
-    echo -e "Scalastyle checks passed.\n"
+    echo -e "Scalastyle checks passed."
 fi

python/pyspark/accumulators.py

@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ def _deserialize_accumulator(aid, zero_value, accum_param):
 
 
 class Accumulator(object):
+
     """
     A shared variable that can be accumulated, i.e., has a commutative and associative "add"
     operation. Worker tasks on a Spark cluster can add values to an Accumulator with the C{+=}
@@ -166,6 +167,7 @@ def __repr__(self):
 
 
 class AccumulatorParam(object):
+
     """
     Helper object that defines how to accumulate values of a given type.
     """
@@ -186,6 +188,7 @@ def addInPlace(self, value1, value2):
 
 
 class AddingAccumulatorParam(AccumulatorParam):
+
     """
     An AccumulatorParam that uses the + operators to add values. Designed for simple types
     such as integers, floats, and lists. Requires the zero value for the underlying type
@@ -210,6 +213,7 @@ def addInPlace(self, value1, value2):
 
 
 class _UpdateRequestHandler(SocketServer.StreamRequestHandler):
+
     """
     This handler will keep polling updates from the same socket until the
     server is shutdown.
@@ -228,7 +232,9 @@ def handle(self):
                 # Write a byte in acknowledgement
                 self.wfile.write(struct.pack("!b", 1))
 
+
 class AccumulatorServer(SocketServer.TCPServer):
+
     """
     A simple TCP server that intercepts shutdown() in order to interrupt
     our continuous polling on the handler.
@@ -239,6 +245,7 @@ def shutdown(self):
         self.server_shutdown = True
         SocketServer.TCPServer.shutdown(self)
 
+
 def _start_update_server():
     """Start a TCP server to receive accumulator updates in a daemon thread, and returns it"""
     server = AccumulatorServer(("localhost", 0), _UpdateRequestHandler)

python/pyspark/broadcast.py

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ def _from_id(bid):
 
 
 class Broadcast(object):
+
     """
     A broadcast variable created with
     L{SparkContext.broadcast()<pyspark.context.SparkContext.broadcast>}.

python/pyspark/conf.py

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 
 
 class SparkConf(object):
+
     """
     Configuration for a Spark application. Used to set various Spark
     parameters as key-value pairs.

python/pyspark/context.py

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 
 
 class SparkContext(object):
+
     """
     Main entry point for Spark functionality. A SparkContext represents the
     connection to a Spark cluster, and can be used to create L{RDD}s and
@@ -213,7 +214,7 @@ def _ensure_initialized(cls, instance=None, gateway=None):
 
             if instance:
                 if (SparkContext._active_spark_context and
-                   SparkContext._active_spark_context != instance):
+                        SparkContext._active_spark_context != instance):
                     currentMaster = SparkContext._active_spark_context.master
                     currentAppName = SparkContext._active_spark_context.appName
                     callsite = SparkContext._active_spark_context._callsite
@@ -406,7 +407,7 @@ def sequenceFile(self, path, keyClass=None, valueClass=None, keyConverter=None,
         batchSize = max(1, batchSize or self._default_batch_size_for_serialized_input)
         ser = BatchedSerializer(PickleSerializer()) if (batchSize > 1) else PickleSerializer()
         jrdd = self._jvm.PythonRDD.sequenceFile(self._jsc, path, keyClass, valueClass,
-                    keyConverter, valueConverter, minSplits, batchSize)
+                                                keyConverter, valueConverter, minSplits, batchSize)
         return RDD(jrdd, self, ser)
 
     def newAPIHadoopFile(self, path, inputFormatClass, keyClass, valueClass, keyConverter=None,
@@ -437,7 +438,8 @@ def newAPIHadoopFile(self, path, inputFormatClass, keyClass, valueClass, keyConv
         batchSize = max(1, batchSize or self._default_batch_size_for_serialized_input)
         ser = BatchedSerializer(PickleSerializer()) if (batchSize > 1) else PickleSerializer()
         jrdd = self._jvm.PythonRDD.newAPIHadoopFile(self._jsc, path, inputFormatClass, keyClass,
-                    valueClass, keyConverter, valueConverter, jconf, batchSize)
+                                                    valueClass, keyConverter, valueConverter,
+                                                    jconf, batchSize)
         return RDD(jrdd, self, ser)
 
     def newAPIHadoopRDD(self, inputFormatClass, keyClass, valueClass, keyConverter=None,
@@ -465,7 +467,8 @@ def newAPIHadoopRDD(self, inputFormatClass, keyClass, valueClass, keyConverter=N
         batchSize = max(1, batchSize or self._default_batch_size_for_serialized_input)
         ser = BatchedSerializer(PickleSerializer()) if (batchSize > 1) else PickleSerializer()
         jrdd = self._jvm.PythonRDD.newAPIHadoopRDD(self._jsc, inputFormatClass, keyClass,
-                    valueClass, keyConverter, valueConverter, jconf, batchSize)
+                                                   valueClass, keyConverter, valueConverter,
+                                                   jconf, batchSize)
         return RDD(jrdd, self, ser)
 
     def hadoopFile(self, path, inputFormatClass, keyClass, valueClass, keyConverter=None,
@@ -496,7 +499,8 @@ def hadoopFile(self, path, inputFormatClass, keyClass, valueClass, keyConverter=
         batchSize = max(1, batchSize or self._default_batch_size_for_serialized_input)
         ser = BatchedSerializer(PickleSerializer()) if (batchSize > 1) else PickleSerializer()
         jrdd = self._jvm.PythonRDD.hadoopFile(self._jsc, path, inputFormatClass, keyClass,
-                    valueClass, keyConverter, valueConverter, jconf, batchSize)
+                                              valueClass, keyConverter, valueConverter,
+                                              jconf, batchSize)
         return RDD(jrdd, self, ser)
 
     def hadoopRDD(self, inputFormatClass, keyClass, valueClass, keyConverter=None,
@@ -523,8 +527,9 @@ def hadoopRDD(self, inputFormatClass, keyClass, valueClass, keyConverter=None,
         jconf = self._dictToJavaMap(conf)
         batchSize = max(1, batchSize or self._default_batch_size_for_serialized_input)
         ser = BatchedSerializer(PickleSerializer()) if (batchSize > 1) else PickleSerializer()
-        jrdd = self._jvm.PythonRDD.hadoopRDD(self._jsc, inputFormatClass, keyClass, valueClass,
-                    keyConverter, valueConverter, jconf, batchSize)
+        jrdd = self._jvm.PythonRDD.hadoopRDD(self._jsc, inputFormatClass, keyClass,
+                                             valueClass, keyConverter, valueConverter,
+                                             jconf, batchSize)
         return RDD(jrdd, self, ser)
 
     def _checkpointFile(self, name, input_deserializer):
@@ -555,8 +560,7 @@ def union(self, rdds):
         first = rdds[0]._jrdd
         rest = [x._jrdd for x in rdds[1:]]
         rest = ListConverter().convert(rest, self._gateway._gateway_client)
-        return RDD(self._jsc.union(first, rest), self,
-                   rdds[0]._jrdd_deserializer)
+        return RDD(self._jsc.union(first, rest), self, rdds[0]._jrdd_deserializer)
 
     def broadcast(self, value):
         """
@@ -568,8 +572,7 @@ def broadcast(self, value):
         pickleSer = PickleSerializer()
         pickled = pickleSer.dumps(value)
         jbroadcast = self._jsc.broadcast(bytearray(pickled))
-        return Broadcast(jbroadcast.id(), value, jbroadcast,
-                         self._pickled_broadcast_vars)
+        return Broadcast(jbroadcast.id(), value, jbroadcast, self._pickled_broadcast_vars)
 
     def accumulator(self, value, accum_param=None):
         """

python/pyspark/daemon.py

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def worker(sock):
     """
     # Redirect stdout to stderr
     os.dup2(2, 1)
-    sys.stdout = sys.stderr   # The sys.stdout object is different from file descriptor 1
+    sys.stdout = sys.stderr  # The sys.stdout object is different from file descriptor 1
 
     signal.signal(SIGHUP, SIG_DFL)
     signal.signal(SIGCHLD, SIG_DFL)
@@ -134,8 +134,7 @@ def handle_sigchld(*args):
                 try:
                     os.kill(worker_pid, signal.SIGKILL)
                 except OSError:
-                    pass # process already died
-
+                    pass  # process already died
 
             if listen_sock in ready_fds:
                 sock, addr = listen_sock.accept()

python/pyspark/files.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 
 class SparkFiles(object):
+
     """
     Resolves paths to files added through
     L{SparkContext.addFile()<pyspark.context.SparkContext.addFile>}.

python/pyspark/java_gateway.py

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ def preexec_func():
         # Create a thread to echo output from the GatewayServer, which is required
         # for Java log output to show up:
         class EchoOutputThread(Thread):
+
             def __init__(self, stream):
                 Thread.__init__(self)
                 self.daemon = True

python/pyspark/mllib/_common.py

@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@
 # Python interpreter must agree on what endian the machine is.
 
 
-DENSE_VECTOR_MAGIC  = 1
+DENSE_VECTOR_MAGIC = 1
 SPARSE_VECTOR_MAGIC = 2
-DENSE_MATRIX_MAGIC  = 3
+DENSE_MATRIX_MAGIC = 3
 LABELED_POINT_MAGIC = 4
 
 
@@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ def _serialize_rating(r):
 
 
 class RatingDeserializer(Serializer):
+
     def loads(self, stream):
         length = struct.unpack("!i", stream.read(4))[0]
         ba = stream.read(length)