Author: zsxwing <zsxwing@gmail.com>

Closes #6830 from zsxwing/flume-python and squashes the following commits:

78dfdac [zsxwing] Fix the compile error in the test code
f1bf3c0 [zsxwing] Address TD's comments
0449723 [zsxwing] Add sbt goal streaming-flume-assembly/assembly
e93736b [zsxwing] Fix the test case for determine_modules_to_test
9d5821e [zsxwing] Fix pyspark_core dependencies
f9ee681 [zsxwing] Merge branch 'master' into flume-python
7a55837 [zsxwing] Add streaming_flume_assembly to run-tests.py
b96b0de [zsxwing] Merge branch 'master' into flume-python
ce85e83 [zsxwing] Fix incompatible issues for Python 3
01cbb3d [zsxwing] Add import sys
152364c [zsxwing] Fix the issue that StringIO doesn't work in Python 3
14ba0ff [zsxwing] Add flume-assembly for sbt building
b8d5551 [zsxwing] Merge branch 'master' into flume-python
4762c34 [zsxwing] Fix the doc
0336579 [zsxwing] Refactor Flume unit tests and also add tests for Python API
9f33873 [zsxwing] Add the Python API for Flume