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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _createFromLocal(self, data, schema):
 """ Create an RDD for DataFrame from a list or pandas.DataFrame, returns the RDD and schema. """

        # make sure data could consumed multiple times
        if not isinstance(data, list):
            data = list(data)

        if schema is None or isinstance(schema, (list, tuple)):
            struct = self._inferSchemaFromList(data, names=schema)
            converter = _create_converter(struct)
            data = map(converter, data)
            if isinstance(schema, (list, tuple)):
                for i, name in enumerate(schema):
                    struct.fields[i].name = name
                    struct.names[i] = name
            schema = struct

        elif not isinstance(schema, StructType):
            raise TypeError("schema should be StructType or list or None, but got: %s" % schema)

        # convert python objects to sql data
        data = [schema.toInternal(row) for row in data]
        return self._sc.parallelize(data), schema