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PySpark RDD | filter method

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PySpark RDD's filter(~) method extracts a subset of the data based on the given function.

Parameters

1. f | function

A function that takes in as input an item of the RDD's data and returns a boolean where:

  • True indicates keeping

  • False indicates ignoring.

Return Value

A PySpark RDD (pyspark.rdd.PipelinedRDD).

Examples

Consider the following RDD:

rdd = sc.parallelize([4,2,5,7])
rdd
ParallelCollectionRDD[7] at readRDDFromInputStream at PythonRDD.scala:413

Filtering elements of a RDD

To obtain a new RDD where the values are all strictly larger than 3:

new_rdd = rdd.filter(lambda x: x > 3)
new_rdd.collect()
[4, 5, 7]

Here, the collect() method is used to retrieve the content of the RDD as a single list.

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