RDD.lookup(key)
Return the list of values in the RDD for key `key`. This operation
is done efficiently if the RDD has a known partitioner by only
searching the partition that the key maps to.
>>> l = range(1000)
>>> rdd = sc.parallelize(zip(l, l), 10)
>>> rdd.lookup(42) # slow
[42]
>>> sorted = rdd.sortByKey()
>>> sorted.lookup(42) # fast
[42]
It also clean up the code in RDD.py, and fix several bugs (related to preservesPartitioning).
Author: Davies Liu <davies.liu@gmail.com>
Closes#2093 from davies/lookup and squashes the following commits:
1789cd4 [Davies Liu] `f` in foreach could be generator or not.
2871b80 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' into lookup
c6390ea [Davies Liu] address all comments
0f1bce8 [Davies Liu] add test case for lookup()
be0e8ba [Davies Liu] fix preservesPartitioning
eb1305d [Davies Liu] add RDD.lookup(key)
4fa2fda88f