From 5dd40d0aff144c8a8e667ad3330073ef9c59fc11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Holden Karau <holden@pigscanfly.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 14:08:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [SPARK-7711] Add a startTime property to match the
 corresponding one in Scala

Author: Holden Karau <holden@pigscanfly.ca>

Closes #6275 from holdenk/SPARK-771-startTime-is-missing-from-pyspark and squashes the following commits:

06662dc [Holden Karau] add mising blank line for style checks
7a87410 [Holden Karau] add back missing newline
7a7876b [Holden Karau] Add a startTime property to match the corresponding one in the Scala SparkContext
---
 python/pyspark/context.py | 5 +++++
 python/pyspark/tests.py   | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/python/pyspark/context.py b/python/pyspark/context.py
index 1f2b40b29fafa..aeb7ad4f2f83e 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/context.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/context.py
@@ -291,6 +291,11 @@ def version(self):
         """
         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):
         """
diff --git a/python/pyspark/tests.py b/python/pyspark/tests.py
index d8e319994cc96..f9fb37f7fc139 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/tests.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/tests.py
@@ -1809,6 +1809,10 @@ def run():
 
             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):