spark-instrumented-optimizer/python/pyspark/rdd.py

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from base64 import standard_b64encode as b64enc
import copy
from collections import defaultdict
from collections import namedtuple
from itertools import chain, ifilter, imap
import operator
import os
import sys
import shlex
import traceback
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
from threading import Thread
import warnings
import heapq
from random import Random

from pyspark.serializers import NoOpSerializer, CartesianDeserializer, \
    BatchedSerializer, CloudPickleSerializer, PairDeserializer, \
    PickleSerializer, pack_long
from pyspark.join import python_join, python_left_outer_join, \
    python_right_outer_join, python_cogroup
from pyspark.statcounter import StatCounter
from pyspark.rddsampler import RDDSampler
from pyspark.storagelevel import StorageLevel
from pyspark.resultiterable import ResultIterable

from py4j.java_collections import ListConverter, MapConverter

__all__ = ["RDD"]


def _extract_concise_traceback():
    """
    This function returns the traceback info for a callsite, returns a dict
    with function name, file name and line number
    """
    tb = traceback.extract_stack()
    callsite = namedtuple("Callsite", "function file linenum")
    if len(tb) == 0:
        return None
    file, line, module, what = tb[len(tb) - 1]
    sparkpath = os.path.dirname(file)
    first_spark_frame = len(tb) - 1
    for i in range(0, len(tb)):
        file, line, fun, what = tb[i]
        if file.startswith(sparkpath):
            first_spark_frame = i
            break
    if first_spark_frame == 0:
        file, line, fun, what = tb[0]
        return callsite(function=fun, file=file, linenum=line)
    sfile, sline, sfun, swhat = tb[first_spark_frame]
    ufile, uline, ufun, uwhat = tb[first_spark_frame-1]
    return callsite(function=sfun, file=ufile, linenum=uline)

_spark_stack_depth = 0

class _JavaStackTrace(object):
    def __init__(self, sc):
        tb = _extract_concise_traceback()
        if tb is not None:
            self._traceback = "%s at %s:%s" % (tb.function, tb.file, tb.linenum)
        else:
            self._traceback = "Error! Could not extract traceback info"
        self._context = sc

    def __enter__(self):
        global _spark_stack_depth
        if _spark_stack_depth == 0:
            self._context._jsc.setCallSite(self._traceback)
        _spark_stack_depth += 1

    def __exit__(self, type, value, tb):
        global _spark_stack_depth
        _spark_stack_depth -= 1
        if _spark_stack_depth == 0:
            self._context._jsc.setCallSite(None)

class MaxHeapQ(object):
    """
    An implementation of MaxHeap.
    >>> import pyspark.rdd
    >>> heap = pyspark.rdd.MaxHeapQ(5)
    >>> [heap.insert(i) for i in range(10)]
    [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]
    >>> sorted(heap.getElements())
    [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
    >>> heap = pyspark.rdd.MaxHeapQ(5)
    >>> [heap.insert(i) for i in range(9, -1, -1)]
    [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]
    >>> sorted(heap.getElements())
    [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
    >>> heap = pyspark.rdd.MaxHeapQ(1)
    >>> [heap.insert(i) for i in range(9, -1, -1)]
    [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]
    >>> heap.getElements()
    [0]
    """

    def __init__(self, maxsize):
        # we start from q[1], this makes calculating children as trivial as 2 * k
        self.q = [0]
        self.maxsize = maxsize

    def _swim(self, k):
        while (k > 1) and (self.q[k/2] < self.q[k]):
            self._swap(k, k/2)
            k = k/2

    def _swap(self, i, j):
        t = self.q[i]
        self.q[i] = self.q[j]
        self.q[j] = t

    def _sink(self, k):
        N = self.size()
        while 2 * k <= N:
            j = 2 * k
            # Here we test if both children are greater than parent
            # if not swap with larger one.
            if j < N and self.q[j] < self.q[j + 1]:
                j = j + 1
            if(self.q[k] > self.q[j]):
                break
            self._swap(k, j)
            k = j

    def size(self):
        return len(self.q) - 1

    def insert(self, value):
        if (self.size()) < self.maxsize:
            self.q.append(value)
            self._swim(self.size())
        else:
            self._replaceRoot(value)

    def getElements(self):
        return self.q[1:]

    def _replaceRoot(self, value):
        if(self.q[1] > value):
            self.q[1] = value
            self._sink(1)

class RDD(object):
    """
    A Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), the basic abstraction in Spark.
    Represents an immutable, partitioned collection of elements that can be
    operated on in parallel.
    """

    def __init__(self, jrdd, ctx, jrdd_deserializer):
        self._jrdd = jrdd
        self.is_cached = False
        self.is_checkpointed = False
        self.ctx = ctx
        self._jrdd_deserializer = jrdd_deserializer
        self._id = jrdd.id()

    def id(self):
        """
        A unique ID for this RDD (within its SparkContext).
        """
        return self._id

    def __repr__(self):
        return self._jrdd.toString()

    @property
    def context(self):
        """
        The L{SparkContext} that this RDD was created on.
        """
        return self.ctx

    def cache(self):
        """
        Persist this RDD with the default storage level (C{MEMORY_ONLY}).
        """
        self.is_cached = True
        self._jrdd.cache()
        return self

    def persist(self, storageLevel):
        """
        Set this RDD's storage level to persist its values across operations after the first time
        it is computed. This can only be used to assign a new storage level if the RDD does not
        have a storage level set yet.
        """
        self.is_cached = True
        javaStorageLevel = self.ctx._getJavaStorageLevel(storageLevel)
        self._jrdd.persist(javaStorageLevel)
        return self

    def unpersist(self):
        """
        Mark the RDD as non-persistent, and remove all blocks for it from memory and disk.
        """
        self.is_cached = False
        self._jrdd.unpersist()
        return self

    def checkpoint(self):
        """
        Mark this RDD for checkpointing. It will be saved to a file inside the
        checkpoint directory set with L{SparkContext.setCheckpointDir()} and
        all references to its parent RDDs will be removed. This function must
        be called before any job has been executed on this RDD. It is strongly
        recommended that this RDD is persisted in memory, otherwise saving it
        on a file will require recomputation.
        """
        self.is_checkpointed = True
        self._jrdd.rdd().checkpoint()

    def isCheckpointed(self):
        """
        Return whether this RDD has been checkpointed or not
        """
        return self._jrdd.rdd().isCheckpointed()

    def getCheckpointFile(self):
        """
        Gets the name of the file to which this RDD was checkpointed
        """
        checkpointFile = self._jrdd.rdd().getCheckpointFile()
        if checkpointFile.isDefined():
            return checkpointFile.get()
        else:
            return None

    def map(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
        """
        Return a new RDD by applying a function to each element of this RDD.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize(["b", "a", "c"])
        >>> sorted(rdd.map(lambda x: (x, 1)).collect())
        [('a', 1), ('b', 1), ('c', 1)]
        """
        def func(split, iterator): return imap(f, iterator)
        return PipelinedRDD(self, func, preservesPartitioning)

    def flatMap(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
        """
        Return a new RDD by first applying a function to all elements of this
        RDD, and then flattening the results.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([2, 3, 4])
        >>> sorted(rdd.flatMap(lambda x: range(1, x)).collect())
        [1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3]
        >>> sorted(rdd.flatMap(lambda x: [(x, x), (x, x)]).collect())
        [(2, 2), (2, 2), (3, 3), (3, 3), (4, 4), (4, 4)]
        """
        def func(s, iterator): return chain.from_iterable(imap(f, iterator))
        return self.mapPartitionsWithIndex(func, preservesPartitioning)

    def mapPartitions(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
        """
        Return a new RDD by applying a function to each partition of this RDD.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4], 2)
        >>> def f(iterator): yield sum(iterator)
        >>> rdd.mapPartitions(f).collect()
        [3, 7]
        """
        def func(s, iterator): return f(iterator)
        return self.mapPartitionsWithIndex(func)

    def mapPartitionsWithIndex(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
        """
        Return a new RDD by applying a function to each partition of this RDD,
        while tracking the index of the original partition.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4], 4)
        >>> def f(splitIndex, iterator): yield splitIndex
        >>> rdd.mapPartitionsWithIndex(f).sum()
        6
        """
        return PipelinedRDD(self, f, preservesPartitioning)

    def mapPartitionsWithSplit(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
        """
        Deprecated: use mapPartitionsWithIndex instead.

        Return a new RDD by applying a function to each partition of this RDD,
        while tracking the index of the original partition.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4], 4)
        >>> def f(splitIndex, iterator): yield splitIndex
        >>> rdd.mapPartitionsWithSplit(f).sum()
        6
        """
        warnings.warn("mapPartitionsWithSplit is deprecated; "
            "use mapPartitionsWithIndex instead", DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
        return self.mapPartitionsWithIndex(f, preservesPartitioning)

    def getNumPartitions(self):
      """
      Returns the number of partitions in RDD
      >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4], 2)
      >>> rdd.getNumPartitions()
      2
      """
      return self._jrdd.splits().size()

    def filter(self, f):
        """
        Return a new RDD containing only the elements that satisfy a predicate.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
        >>> rdd.filter(lambda x: x % 2 == 0).collect()
        [2, 4]
        """
        def func(iterator): return ifilter(f, iterator)
        return self.mapPartitions(func)

    def distinct(self):
        """
        Return a new RDD containing the distinct elements in this RDD.

        >>> sorted(sc.parallelize([1, 1, 2, 3]).distinct().collect())
        [1, 2, 3]
        """
        return self.map(lambda x: (x, None)) \
                   .reduceByKey(lambda x, _: x) \
                   .map(lambda (x, _): x)

    def sample(self, withReplacement, fraction, seed=None):
        """
        Return a sampled subset of this RDD (relies on numpy and falls back
        on default random generator if numpy is unavailable).

        >>> sc.parallelize(range(0, 100)).sample(False, 0.1, 2).collect() #doctest: +SKIP
        [2, 3, 20, 21, 24, 41, 42, 66, 67, 89, 90, 98]
        """
        assert fraction >= 0.0, "Invalid fraction value: %s" % fraction
        return self.mapPartitionsWithIndex(RDDSampler(withReplacement, fraction, seed).func, True)

    # this is ported from scala/spark/RDD.scala
    def takeSample(self, withReplacement, num, seed=None):
        """
        Return a fixed-size sampled subset of this RDD (currently requires numpy).

        >>> sc.parallelize(range(0, 10)).takeSample(True, 10, 1) #doctest: +SKIP
        [4, 2, 1, 8, 2, 7, 0, 4, 1, 4]
        """

        fraction = 0.0
        total = 0
        multiplier = 3.0
        initialCount = self.count()
        maxSelected = 0

        if (num < 0):
            raise ValueError

        if (initialCount == 0):
            return list()

        if initialCount > sys.maxint - 1:
            maxSelected = sys.maxint - 1
        else:
            maxSelected = initialCount

        if num > initialCount and not withReplacement:
            total = maxSelected
            fraction = multiplier * (maxSelected + 1) / initialCount
        else:
            fraction = multiplier * (num + 1) / initialCount
            total = num

        samples = self.sample(withReplacement, fraction, seed).collect()

        # If the first sample didn't turn out large enough, keep trying to take samples;
        # this shouldn't happen often because we use a big multiplier for their initial size.
        # See: scala/spark/RDD.scala
        rand = Random(seed)
        while len(samples) < total:
            samples = self.sample(withReplacement, fraction, rand.randint(0, sys.maxint)).collect()

        sampler = RDDSampler(withReplacement, fraction, rand.randint(0, sys.maxint))
        sampler.shuffle(samples)
        return samples[0:total]

    def union(self, other):
        """
        Return the union of this RDD and another one.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 1, 2, 3])
        >>> rdd.union(rdd).collect()
        [1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3]
        """
        if self._jrdd_deserializer == other._jrdd_deserializer:
            rdd = RDD(self._jrdd.union(other._jrdd), self.ctx,
                      self._jrdd_deserializer)
            return rdd
        else:
            # These RDDs contain data in different serialized formats, so we
            # must normalize them to the default serializer.
            self_copy = self._reserialize()
            other_copy = other._reserialize()
            return RDD(self_copy._jrdd.union(other_copy._jrdd), self.ctx,
                       self.ctx.serializer)

    def intersection(self, other):
        """
        Return the intersection of this RDD and another one. The output will not
        contain any duplicate elements, even if the input RDDs did.

        Note that this method performs a shuffle internally.

        >>> rdd1 = sc.parallelize([1, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5])
        >>> rdd2 = sc.parallelize([1, 6, 2, 3, 7, 8])
        >>> rdd1.intersection(rdd2).collect()
        [1, 2, 3]
        """
        return self.map(lambda v: (v, None)) \
            .cogroup(other.map(lambda v: (v, None))) \
            .filter(lambda x: (len(x[1][0]) != 0) and (len(x[1][1]) != 0)) \
            .keys()

    def _reserialize(self, serializer=None):
        serializer = serializer or self.ctx.serializer
        if self._jrdd_deserializer == serializer:
            return self
        else:
            converted = self.map(lambda x: x, preservesPartitioning=True)
            converted._jrdd_deserializer = serializer
            return converted

    def __add__(self, other):
        """
        Return the union of this RDD and another one.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 1, 2, 3])
        >>> (rdd + rdd).collect()
        [1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 3]
        """
        if not isinstance(other, RDD):
            raise TypeError
        return self.union(other)

    def sortByKey(self, ascending=True, numPartitions=None, keyfunc = lambda x: x):
        """
        Sorts this RDD, which is assumed to consist of (key, value) pairs.

        >>> tmp = [('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('1', 3), ('d', 4), ('2', 5)]
        >>> sc.parallelize(tmp).sortByKey(True, 2).collect()
        [('1', 3), ('2', 5), ('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('d', 4)]
        >>> tmp2 = [('Mary', 1), ('had', 2), ('a', 3), ('little', 4), ('lamb', 5)]
        >>> tmp2.extend([('whose', 6), ('fleece', 7), ('was', 8), ('white', 9)])
        >>> sc.parallelize(tmp2).sortByKey(True, 3, keyfunc=lambda k: k.lower()).collect()
        [('a', 3), ('fleece', 7), ('had', 2), ('lamb', 5), ('little', 4), ('Mary', 1), ('was', 8), ('white', 9), ('whose', 6)]
        """
        if numPartitions is None:
            numPartitions = self.ctx.defaultParallelism

        bounds = list()

        # first compute the boundary of each part via sampling: we want to partition
        # the key-space into bins such that the bins have roughly the same
        # number of (key, value) pairs falling into them
        if numPartitions > 1:
            rddSize = self.count()
            maxSampleSize = numPartitions * 20.0 # constant from Spark's RangePartitioner
            fraction = min(maxSampleSize / max(rddSize, 1), 1.0)

            samples = self.sample(False, fraction, 1).map(lambda (k, v): k).collect()
            samples = sorted(samples, reverse=(not ascending), key=keyfunc)

            # we have numPartitions many parts but one of the them has
            # an implicit boundary
            for i in range(0, numPartitions - 1):
                index = (len(samples) - 1) * (i + 1) / numPartitions
                bounds.append(samples[index])

        def rangePartitionFunc(k):
            p = 0
            while p < len(bounds) and keyfunc(k) > bounds[p]:
                p += 1
            if ascending:
                return p
            else:
                return numPartitions-1-p

        def mapFunc(iterator):
            yield sorted(iterator, reverse=(not ascending), key=lambda (k, v): keyfunc(k))

        return (self.partitionBy(numPartitions, partitionFunc=rangePartitionFunc)
                    .mapPartitions(mapFunc,preservesPartitioning=True)
                    .flatMap(lambda x: x, preservesPartitioning=True))

    def glom(self):
        """
        Return an RDD created by coalescing all elements within each partition
        into a list.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4], 2)
        >>> sorted(rdd.glom().collect())
        [[1, 2], [3, 4]]
        """
        def func(iterator): yield list(iterator)
        return self.mapPartitions(func)

    def cartesian(self, other):
        """
        Return the Cartesian product of this RDD and another one, that is, the
        RDD of all pairs of elements C{(a, b)} where C{a} is in C{self} and
        C{b} is in C{other}.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 2])
        >>> sorted(rdd.cartesian(rdd).collect())
        [(1, 1), (1, 2), (2, 1), (2, 2)]
        """
        # Due to batching, we can't use the Java cartesian method.
        deserializer = CartesianDeserializer(self._jrdd_deserializer,
                                             other._jrdd_deserializer)
        return RDD(self._jrdd.cartesian(other._jrdd), self.ctx, deserializer)

    def groupBy(self, f, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Return an RDD of grouped items.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8])
        >>> result = rdd.groupBy(lambda x: x % 2).collect()
        >>> sorted([(x, sorted(y)) for (x, y) in result])
        [(0, [2, 8]), (1, [1, 1, 3, 5])]
        """
        return self.map(lambda x: (f(x), x)).groupByKey(numPartitions)

    def pipe(self, command, env={}):
        """
        Return an RDD created by piping elements to a forked external process.

        >>> sc.parallelize(['1', '2', '', '3']).pipe('cat').collect()
        ['1', '2', '', '3']
        """
        def func(iterator):
            pipe = Popen(shlex.split(command), env=env, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE)
            def pipe_objs(out):
                for obj in iterator:
                    out.write(str(obj).rstrip('\n') + '\n')
                out.close()
            Thread(target=pipe_objs, args=[pipe.stdin]).start()
            return (x.rstrip('\n') for x in iter(pipe.stdout.readline, ''))
        return self.mapPartitions(func)

    def foreach(self, f):
        """
        Applies a function to all elements of this RDD.

        >>> def f(x): print x
        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).foreach(f)
        """
        def processPartition(iterator):
            for x in iterator:
                f(x)
            yield None
        self.mapPartitions(processPartition).collect()  # Force evaluation

    def foreachPartition(self, f):
        """
        Applies a function to each partition of this RDD.

        >>> def f(iterator):
        ...      for x in iterator:
        ...           print x
        ...      yield None
        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).foreachPartition(f)
        """
        self.mapPartitions(f).collect()  # Force evaluation

    def collect(self):
        """
        Return a list that contains all of the elements in this RDD.
        """
        with _JavaStackTrace(self.context) as st:
          bytesInJava = self._jrdd.collect().iterator()
        return list(self._collect_iterator_through_file(bytesInJava))

    def _collect_iterator_through_file(self, iterator):
        # Transferring lots of data through Py4J can be slow because
        # socket.readline() is inefficient.  Instead, we'll dump the data to a
        # file and read it back.
        tempFile = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, dir=self.ctx._temp_dir)
        tempFile.close()
        self.ctx._writeToFile(iterator, tempFile.name)
        # Read the data into Python and deserialize it:
        with open(tempFile.name, 'rb') as tempFile:
            for item in self._jrdd_deserializer.load_stream(tempFile):
                yield item
        os.unlink(tempFile.name)

    def reduce(self, f):
        """
        Reduces the elements of this RDD using the specified commutative and
        associative binary operator. Currently reduces partitions locally.

        >>> from operator import add
        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).reduce(add)
        15
        >>> sc.parallelize((2 for _ in range(10))).map(lambda x: 1).cache().reduce(add)
        10
        """
        def func(iterator):
            acc = None
            for obj in iterator:
                if acc is None:
                    acc = obj
                else:
                    acc = f(obj, acc)
            if acc is not None:
                yield acc
        vals = self.mapPartitions(func).collect()
        return reduce(f, vals)

    def fold(self, zeroValue, op):
        """
        Aggregate the elements of each partition, and then the results for all
        the partitions, using a given associative function and a neutral "zero
        value."

        The function C{op(t1, t2)} is allowed to modify C{t1} and return it
        as its result value to avoid object allocation; however, it should not
        modify C{t2}.

        >>> from operator import add
        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).fold(0, add)
        15
        """
        def func(iterator):
            acc = zeroValue
            for obj in iterator:
                acc = op(obj, acc)
            yield acc
        vals = self.mapPartitions(func).collect()
        return reduce(op, vals, zeroValue)

    def aggregate(self, zeroValue, seqOp, combOp):
        """
        Aggregate the elements of each partition, and then the results for all
        the partitions, using a given combine functions and a neutral "zero
        value."

        The functions C{op(t1, t2)} is allowed to modify C{t1} and return it
        as its result value to avoid object allocation; however, it should not
        modify C{t2}.

        The first function (seqOp) can return a different result type, U, than
        the type of this RDD. Thus, we need one operation for merging a T into an U
        and one operation for merging two U

        >>> seqOp = (lambda x, y: (x[0] + y, x[1] + 1))
        >>> combOp = (lambda x, y: (x[0] + y[0], x[1] + y[1]))
        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4]).aggregate((0, 0), seqOp, combOp)
        (10, 4)
        >>> sc.parallelize([]).aggregate((0, 0), seqOp, combOp)
        (0, 0)
        """
        def func(iterator):
            acc = zeroValue
            for obj in iterator:
                acc = seqOp(acc, obj)
            yield acc

        return self.mapPartitions(func).fold(zeroValue, combOp)


    def max(self):
        """
        Find the maximum item in this RDD.

        >>> sc.parallelize([1.0, 5.0, 43.0, 10.0]).max()
        43.0
        """
        return self.reduce(max)

    def min(self):
        """
        Find the minimum item in this RDD.

        >>> sc.parallelize([1.0, 5.0, 43.0, 10.0]).min()
        1.0
        """
        return self.reduce(min)

    def sum(self):
        """
        Add up the elements in this RDD.

        >>> sc.parallelize([1.0, 2.0, 3.0]).sum()
        6.0
        """
        return self.mapPartitions(lambda x: [sum(x)]).reduce(operator.add)

    def count(self):
        """
        Return the number of elements in this RDD.

        >>> sc.parallelize([2, 3, 4]).count()
        3
        """
        return self.mapPartitions(lambda i: [sum(1 for _ in i)]).sum()

    def stats(self):
        """
        Return a L{StatCounter} object that captures the mean, variance
        and count of the RDD's elements in one operation.
        """
        def redFunc(left_counter, right_counter):
            return left_counter.mergeStats(right_counter)

        return self.mapPartitions(lambda i: [StatCounter(i)]).reduce(redFunc)

    def mean(self):
        """
        Compute the mean of this RDD's elements.

        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3]).mean()
        2.0
        """
        return self.stats().mean()

    def variance(self):
        """
        Compute the variance of this RDD's elements.

        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3]).variance()
        0.666...
        """
        return self.stats().variance()

    def stdev(self):
        """
        Compute the standard deviation of this RDD's elements.

        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3]).stdev()
        0.816...
        """
        return self.stats().stdev()

    def sampleStdev(self):
        """
        Compute the sample standard deviation of this RDD's elements (which corrects for bias in
        estimating the standard deviation by dividing by N-1 instead of N).

        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3]).sampleStdev()
        1.0
        """
        return self.stats().sampleStdev()

    def sampleVariance(self):
        """
        Compute the sample variance of this RDD's elements (which corrects for bias in
        estimating the variance by dividing by N-1 instead of N).

        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3]).sampleVariance()
        1.0
        """
        return self.stats().sampleVariance()

    def countByValue(self):
        """
        Return the count of each unique value in this RDD as a dictionary of
        (value, count) pairs.

        >>> sorted(sc.parallelize([1, 2, 1, 2, 2], 2).countByValue().items())
        [(1, 2), (2, 3)]
        """
        def countPartition(iterator):
            counts = defaultdict(int)
            for obj in iterator:
                counts[obj] += 1
            yield counts
        def mergeMaps(m1, m2):
            for (k, v) in m2.iteritems():
                m1[k] += v
            return m1
        return self.mapPartitions(countPartition).reduce(mergeMaps)

    def top(self, num):
        """
        Get the top N elements from a RDD.

        Note: It returns the list sorted in descending order.
        >>> sc.parallelize([10, 4, 2, 12, 3]).top(1)
        [12]
        >>> sc.parallelize([2, 3, 4, 5, 6], 2).cache().top(2)
        [6, 5]
        """
        def topIterator(iterator):
            q = []
            for k in iterator:
                if len(q) < num:
                    heapq.heappush(q, k)
                else:
                    heapq.heappushpop(q, k)
            yield q

        def merge(a, b):
            return next(topIterator(a + b))

        return sorted(self.mapPartitions(topIterator).reduce(merge), reverse=True)

    def takeOrdered(self, num, key=None):
        """
        Get the N elements from a RDD ordered in ascending order or as specified
        by the optional key function.

        >>> sc.parallelize([10, 1, 2, 9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]).takeOrdered(6)
        [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
        >>> sc.parallelize([10, 1, 2, 9, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], 2).takeOrdered(6, key=lambda x: -x)
        [10, 9, 7, 6, 5, 4]
        """

        def topNKeyedElems(iterator, key_=None):
            q = MaxHeapQ(num)
            for k in iterator:
                if key_ != None:
                    k = (key_(k), k)
                q.insert(k)
            yield q.getElements()

        def unKey(x, key_=None):
            if key_ != None:
                x = [i[1] for i in x]
            return x

        def merge(a, b):
            return next(topNKeyedElems(a + b))
        result = self.mapPartitions(lambda i: topNKeyedElems(i, key)).reduce(merge)
        return sorted(unKey(result, key), key=key)


    def take(self, num):
        """
        Take the first num elements of the RDD.

        It works by first scanning one partition, and use the results from
        that partition to estimate the number of additional partitions needed
        to satisfy the limit.

        Translated from the Scala implementation in RDD#take().

        >>> sc.parallelize([2, 3, 4, 5, 6]).cache().take(2)
        [2, 3]
        >>> sc.parallelize([2, 3, 4, 5, 6]).take(10)
        [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
        >>> sc.parallelize(range(100), 100).filter(lambda x: x > 90).take(3)
        [91, 92, 93]
        """
        items = []
        totalParts = self._jrdd.splits().size()
        partsScanned = 0

        while len(items) < num and partsScanned < totalParts:
            # The number of partitions to try in this iteration.
            # It is ok for this number to be greater than totalParts because
            # we actually cap it at totalParts in runJob.
            numPartsToTry = 1
            if partsScanned > 0:
                # If we didn't find any rows after the first iteration, just
                # try all partitions next. Otherwise, interpolate the number
                # of partitions we need to try, but overestimate it by 50%.
                if len(items) == 0:
                    numPartsToTry = totalParts - 1
                else:
                    numPartsToTry = int(1.5 * num * partsScanned / len(items))

            left = num - len(items)

            def takeUpToNumLeft(iterator):
                taken = 0
                while taken < left:
                    yield next(iterator)
                    taken += 1

            p = range(partsScanned, min(partsScanned + numPartsToTry, totalParts))
            res = self.context.runJob(self, takeUpToNumLeft, p, True)

            items += res
            partsScanned += numPartsToTry

        return items[:num]

    def first(self):
        """
        Return the first element in this RDD.

        >>> sc.parallelize([2, 3, 4]).first()
        2
        """
        return self.take(1)[0]

    def saveAsPickleFile(self, path, batchSize=10):
        """
        Save this RDD as a SequenceFile of serialized objects. The serializer used is
        L{pyspark.serializers.PickleSerializer}, default batch size is 10.

        >>> tmpFile = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=True)
        >>> tmpFile.close()
        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 'spark', 'rdd']).saveAsPickleFile(tmpFile.name, 3)
        >>> sorted(sc.pickleFile(tmpFile.name, 5).collect())
        [1, 2, 'rdd', 'spark']
        """
        self._reserialize(BatchedSerializer(PickleSerializer(),
                                batchSize))._jrdd.saveAsObjectFile(path)

    def saveAsTextFile(self, path):
        """
        Save this RDD as a text file, using string representations of elements.

        >>> tempFile = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=True)
        >>> tempFile.close()
        >>> sc.parallelize(range(10)).saveAsTextFile(tempFile.name)
        >>> from fileinput import input
        >>> from glob import glob
        >>> ''.join(sorted(input(glob(tempFile.name + "/part-0000*"))))
        '0\\n1\\n2\\n3\\n4\\n5\\n6\\n7\\n8\\n9\\n'

        Empty lines are tolerated when saving to text files.

        >>> tempFile2 = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=True)
        >>> tempFile2.close()
        >>> sc.parallelize(['', 'foo', '', 'bar', '']).saveAsTextFile(tempFile2.name)
        >>> ''.join(sorted(input(glob(tempFile2.name + "/part-0000*"))))
        '\\n\\n\\nbar\\nfoo\\n'
        """
        def func(split, iterator):
            for x in iterator:
                if not isinstance(x, basestring):
                    x = unicode(x)
                yield x.encode("utf-8")
        keyed = PipelinedRDD(self, func)
        keyed._bypass_serializer = True
        keyed._jrdd.map(self.ctx._jvm.BytesToString()).saveAsTextFile(path)

    # Pair functions

    def collectAsMap(self):
        """
        Return the key-value pairs in this RDD to the master as a dictionary.

        >>> m = sc.parallelize([(1, 2), (3, 4)]).collectAsMap()
        >>> m[1]
        2
        >>> m[3]
        4
        """
        return dict(self.collect())

    def keys(self):
        """
        Return an RDD with the keys of each tuple.
        >>> m = sc.parallelize([(1, 2), (3, 4)]).keys()
        >>> m.collect()
        [1, 3]
        """
        return self.map(lambda (k, v): k)

    def values(self):
        """
        Return an RDD with the values of each tuple.
        >>> m = sc.parallelize([(1, 2), (3, 4)]).values()
        >>> m.collect()
        [2, 4]
        """
        return self.map(lambda (k, v): v)

    def reduceByKey(self, func, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Merge the values for each key using an associative reduce function.

        This will also perform the merging locally on each mapper before
        sending results to a reducer, similarly to a "combiner" in MapReduce.

        Output will be hash-partitioned with C{numPartitions} partitions, or
        the default parallelism level if C{numPartitions} is not specified.

        >>> from operator import add
        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 1), ("a", 1)])
        >>> sorted(rdd.reduceByKey(add).collect())
        [('a', 2), ('b', 1)]
        """
        return self.combineByKey(lambda x: x, func, func, numPartitions)

    def reduceByKeyLocally(self, func):
        """
        Merge the values for each key using an associative reduce function, but
        return the results immediately to the master as a dictionary.

        This will also perform the merging locally on each mapper before
        sending results to a reducer, similarly to a "combiner" in MapReduce.

        >>> from operator import add
        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 1), ("a", 1)])
        >>> sorted(rdd.reduceByKeyLocally(add).items())
        [('a', 2), ('b', 1)]
        """
        def reducePartition(iterator):
            m = {}
            for (k, v) in iterator:
                m[k] = v if k not in m else func(m[k], v)
            yield m
        def mergeMaps(m1, m2):
            for (k, v) in m2.iteritems():
                m1[k] = v if k not in m1 else func(m1[k], v)
            return m1
        return self.mapPartitions(reducePartition).reduce(mergeMaps)

    def countByKey(self):
        """
        Count the number of elements for each key, and return the result to the
        master as a dictionary.

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 1), ("a", 1)])
        >>> sorted(rdd.countByKey().items())
        [('a', 2), ('b', 1)]
        """
        return self.map(lambda x: x[0]).countByValue()

    def join(self, other, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Return an RDD containing all pairs of elements with matching keys in
        C{self} and C{other}.

        Each pair of elements will be returned as a (k, (v1, v2)) tuple, where
        (k, v1) is in C{self} and (k, v2) is in C{other}.

        Performs a hash join across the cluster.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 4)])
        >>> y = sc.parallelize([("a", 2), ("a", 3)])
        >>> sorted(x.join(y).collect())
        [('a', (1, 2)), ('a', (1, 3))]
        """
        return python_join(self, other, numPartitions)

    def leftOuterJoin(self, other, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Perform a left outer join of C{self} and C{other}.

        For each element (k, v) in C{self}, the resulting RDD will either
        contain all pairs (k, (v, w)) for w in C{other}, or the pair
        (k, (v, None)) if no elements in other have key k.

        Hash-partitions the resulting RDD into the given number of partitions.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 4)])
        >>> y = sc.parallelize([("a", 2)])
        >>> sorted(x.leftOuterJoin(y).collect())
        [('a', (1, 2)), ('b', (4, None))]
        """
        return python_left_outer_join(self, other, numPartitions)

    def rightOuterJoin(self, other, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Perform a right outer join of C{self} and C{other}.

        For each element (k, w) in C{other}, the resulting RDD will either
        contain all pairs (k, (v, w)) for v in this, or the pair (k, (None, w))
        if no elements in C{self} have key k.

        Hash-partitions the resulting RDD into the given number of partitions.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 4)])
        >>> y = sc.parallelize([("a", 2)])
        >>> sorted(y.rightOuterJoin(x).collect())
        [('a', (2, 1)), ('b', (None, 4))]
        """
        return python_right_outer_join(self, other, numPartitions)

    # TODO: add option to control map-side combining
    def partitionBy(self, numPartitions, partitionFunc=None):
        """
        Return a copy of the RDD partitioned using the specified partitioner.

        >>> pairs = sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 4, 1]).map(lambda x: (x, x))
        >>> sets = pairs.partitionBy(2).glom().collect()
        >>> set(sets[0]).intersection(set(sets[1]))
        set([])
        """
        if numPartitions is None:
            numPartitions = self.ctx.defaultParallelism

        if partitionFunc is None:
            partitionFunc = lambda x: 0 if x is None else hash(x)
        # Transferring O(n) objects to Java is too expensive.  Instead, we'll
        # form the hash buckets in Python, transferring O(numPartitions) objects
        # to Java.  Each object is a (splitNumber, [objects]) pair.
        outputSerializer = self.ctx._unbatched_serializer
        def add_shuffle_key(split, iterator):

            buckets = defaultdict(list)

            for (k, v) in iterator:
                buckets[partitionFunc(k) % numPartitions].append((k, v))
            for (split, items) in buckets.iteritems():
                yield pack_long(split)
                yield outputSerializer.dumps(items)
        keyed = PipelinedRDD(self, add_shuffle_key)
        keyed._bypass_serializer = True
        with _JavaStackTrace(self.context) as st:
            pairRDD = self.ctx._jvm.PairwiseRDD(keyed._jrdd.rdd()).asJavaPairRDD()
            partitioner = self.ctx._jvm.PythonPartitioner(numPartitions,
                                                          id(partitionFunc))
        jrdd = pairRDD.partitionBy(partitioner).values()
        rdd = RDD(jrdd, self.ctx, BatchedSerializer(outputSerializer))
        # This is required so that id(partitionFunc) remains unique, even if
        # partitionFunc is a lambda:
        rdd._partitionFunc = partitionFunc
        return rdd

    # TODO: add control over map-side aggregation
    def combineByKey(self, createCombiner, mergeValue, mergeCombiners,
                     numPartitions=None):
        """
        Generic function to combine the elements for each key using a custom
        set of aggregation functions.

        Turns an RDD[(K, V)] into a result of type RDD[(K, C)], for a "combined
        type" C.  Note that V and C can be different -- for example, one might
        group an RDD of type (Int, Int) into an RDD of type (Int, List[Int]).

        Users provide three functions:

            - C{createCombiner}, which turns a V into a C (e.g., creates
              a one-element list)
            - C{mergeValue}, to merge a V into a C (e.g., adds it to the end of
              a list)
            - C{mergeCombiners}, to combine two C's into a single one.

        In addition, users can control the partitioning of the output RDD.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 1), ("a", 1)])
        >>> def f(x): return x
        >>> def add(a, b): return a + str(b)
        >>> sorted(x.combineByKey(str, add, add).collect())
        [('a', '11'), ('b', '1')]
        """
        if numPartitions is None:
            numPartitions = self.ctx.defaultParallelism
        def combineLocally(iterator):
            combiners = {}
            for x in iterator:
                (k, v) = x
                if k not in combiners:
                    combiners[k] = createCombiner(v)
                else:
                    combiners[k] = mergeValue(combiners[k], v)
            return combiners.iteritems()
        locally_combined = self.mapPartitions(combineLocally)
        shuffled = locally_combined.partitionBy(numPartitions)
        def _mergeCombiners(iterator):
            combiners = {}
            for (k, v) in iterator:
                if not k in combiners:
                    combiners[k] = v
                else:
                    combiners[k] = mergeCombiners(combiners[k], v)
            return combiners.iteritems()
        return shuffled.mapPartitions(_mergeCombiners)
   
    def aggregateByKey(self, zeroValue, seqFunc, combFunc, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Aggregate the values of each key, using given combine functions and a neutral "zero value".
        This function can return a different result type, U, than the type of the values in this RDD,
        V. Thus, we need one operation for merging a V into a U and one operation for merging two U's,
        The former operation is used for merging values within a partition, and the latter is used
        for merging values between partitions. To avoid memory allocation, both of these functions are
        allowed to modify and return their first argument instead of creating a new U.
        """
        def createZero():
          return copy.deepcopy(zeroValue)
        
        return self.combineByKey(lambda v: seqFunc(createZero(), v), seqFunc, combFunc, numPartitions)

    def foldByKey(self, zeroValue, func, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Merge the values for each key using an associative function "func" and a neutral "zeroValue"
        which may be added to the result an arbitrary number of times, and must not change
        the result (e.g., 0 for addition, or 1 for multiplication.).

        >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 1), ("a", 1)])
        >>> from operator import add
        >>> rdd.foldByKey(0, add).collect()
        [('a', 2), ('b', 1)]
        """
        def createZero():
          return copy.deepcopy(zeroValue)

        return self.combineByKey(lambda v: func(createZero(), v), func, func, numPartitions)


    # TODO: support variant with custom partitioner
    def groupByKey(self, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Group the values for each key in the RDD into a single sequence.
        Hash-partitions the resulting RDD with into numPartitions partitions.

        Note: If you are grouping in order to perform an aggregation (such as a
        sum or average) over each key, using reduceByKey will provide much better
        performance.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 1), ("a", 1)])
        >>> map((lambda (x,y): (x, list(y))), sorted(x.groupByKey().collect()))
        [('a', [1, 1]), ('b', [1])]
        """

        def createCombiner(x):
            return [x]

        def mergeValue(xs, x):
            xs.append(x)
            return xs

        def mergeCombiners(a, b):
            return a + b

        return self.combineByKey(createCombiner, mergeValue, mergeCombiners,
                numPartitions).mapValues(lambda x: ResultIterable(x))

    # TODO: add tests
    def flatMapValues(self, f):
        """
        Pass each value in the key-value pair RDD through a flatMap function
        without changing the keys; this also retains the original RDD's
        partitioning.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", ["x", "y", "z"]), ("b", ["p", "r"])])
        >>> def f(x): return x
        >>> x.flatMapValues(f).collect()
        [('a', 'x'), ('a', 'y'), ('a', 'z'), ('b', 'p'), ('b', 'r')]
        """
        flat_map_fn = lambda (k, v): ((k, x) for x in f(v))
        return self.flatMap(flat_map_fn, preservesPartitioning=True)

    def mapValues(self, f):
        """
        Pass each value in the key-value pair RDD through a map function
        without changing the keys; this also retains the original RDD's
        partitioning.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", ["apple", "banana", "lemon"]), ("b", ["grapes"])])
        >>> def f(x): return len(x)
        >>> x.mapValues(f).collect()
        [('a', 3), ('b', 1)]
        """
        map_values_fn = lambda (k, v): (k, f(v))
        return self.map(map_values_fn, preservesPartitioning=True)

    # TODO: support varargs cogroup of several RDDs.
    def groupWith(self, other):
        """
        Alias for cogroup.
        """
        return self.cogroup(other)

    # TODO: add variant with custom parittioner
    def cogroup(self, other, numPartitions=None):
        """
        For each key k in C{self} or C{other}, return a resulting RDD that
        contains a tuple with the list of values for that key in C{self} as well
        as C{other}.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 4)])
        >>> y = sc.parallelize([("a", 2)])
        >>> map((lambda (x,y): (x, (list(y[0]), list(y[1])))), sorted(list(x.cogroup(y).collect())))
        [('a', ([1], [2])), ('b', ([4], []))]
        """
        return python_cogroup(self, other, numPartitions)

    def subtractByKey(self, other, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Return each (key, value) pair in C{self} that has no pair with matching key
        in C{other}.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 4), ("b", 5), ("a", 2)])
        >>> y = sc.parallelize([("a", 3), ("c", None)])
        >>> sorted(x.subtractByKey(y).collect())
        [('b', 4), ('b', 5)]
        """
        filter_func = lambda (key, vals): len(vals[0]) > 0 and len(vals[1]) == 0
        map_func = lambda (key, vals): [(key, val) for val in vals[0]]
        return self.cogroup(other, numPartitions).filter(filter_func).flatMap(map_func)

    def subtract(self, other, numPartitions=None):
        """
        Return each value in C{self} that is not contained in C{other}.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 4), ("b", 5), ("a", 3)])
        >>> y = sc.parallelize([("a", 3), ("c", None)])
        >>> sorted(x.subtract(y).collect())
        [('a', 1), ('b', 4), ('b', 5)]
        """
        rdd = other.map(lambda x: (x, True)) # note: here 'True' is just a placeholder
        return self.map(lambda x: (x, True)).subtractByKey(rdd).map(lambda tpl: tpl[0]) # note: here 'True' is just a placeholder

    def keyBy(self, f):
        """
        Creates tuples of the elements in this RDD by applying C{f}.

        >>> x = sc.parallelize(range(0,3)).keyBy(lambda x: x*x)
        >>> y = sc.parallelize(zip(range(0,5), range(0,5)))
        >>> map((lambda (x,y): (x, (list(y[0]), (list(y[1]))))), sorted(x.cogroup(y).collect()))
        [(0, ([0], [0])), (1, ([1], [1])), (2, ([], [2])), (3, ([], [3])), (4, ([2], [4]))]
        """
        return self.map(lambda x: (f(x), x))

    def repartition(self, numPartitions):
        """
         Return a new RDD that has exactly numPartitions partitions.

         Can increase or decrease the level of parallelism in this RDD. Internally, this uses
         a shuffle to redistribute data.
         If you are decreasing the number of partitions in this RDD, consider using `coalesce`,
         which can avoid performing a shuffle.
         >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1,2,3,4,5,6,7], 4)
         >>> sorted(rdd.glom().collect())
         [[1], [2, 3], [4, 5], [6, 7]]
         >>> len(rdd.repartition(2).glom().collect())
         2
         >>> len(rdd.repartition(10).glom().collect())
         10
        """
        jrdd = self._jrdd.repartition(numPartitions)
        return RDD(jrdd, self.ctx, self._jrdd_deserializer)

    def coalesce(self, numPartitions, shuffle=False):
        """
        Return a new RDD that is reduced into `numPartitions` partitions.
        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 3).glom().collect()
        [[1], [2, 3], [4, 5]]
        >>> sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 3).coalesce(1).glom().collect()
        [[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]]
        """
        jrdd = self._jrdd.coalesce(numPartitions)
        return RDD(jrdd, self.ctx, self._jrdd_deserializer)

    def zip(self, other):
        """
        Zips this RDD with another one, returning key-value pairs with the first element in each RDD
        second element in each RDD, etc. Assumes that the two RDDs have the same number of
        partitions and the same number of elements in each partition (e.g. one was made through
        a map on the other).

        >>> x = sc.parallelize(range(0,5))
        >>> y = sc.parallelize(range(1000, 1005))
        >>> x.zip(y).collect()
        [(0, 1000), (1, 1001), (2, 1002), (3, 1003), (4, 1004)]
        """
        pairRDD = self._jrdd.zip(other._jrdd)
        deserializer = PairDeserializer(self._jrdd_deserializer,
                                             other._jrdd_deserializer)
        return RDD(pairRDD, self.ctx, deserializer)

    def name(self):
        """
        Return the name of this RDD.
        """
        name_ = self._jrdd.name()
        if not name_:
            return None
        return name_.encode('utf-8')

    def setName(self, name):
        """
        Assign a name to this RDD.
        >>> rdd1 = sc.parallelize([1,2])
        >>> rdd1.setName('RDD1')
        >>> rdd1.name()
        'RDD1'
        """
        self._jrdd.setName(name)

    def toDebugString(self):
        """
        A description of this RDD and its recursive dependencies for debugging.
        """
        debug_string = self._jrdd.toDebugString()
        if not debug_string:
            return None
        return debug_string.encode('utf-8')

    def getStorageLevel(self):
        """
        Get the RDD's current storage level.
        >>> rdd1 = sc.parallelize([1,2])
        >>> rdd1.getStorageLevel()
        StorageLevel(False, False, False, False, 1)
        """
        java_storage_level = self._jrdd.getStorageLevel()
        storage_level = StorageLevel(java_storage_level.useDisk(),
                                     java_storage_level.useMemory(),
                                     java_storage_level.useOffHeap(),
                                     java_storage_level.deserialized(),
                                     java_storage_level.replication())
        return storage_level

    # TODO: `lookup` is disabled because we can't make direct comparisons based
    # on the key; we need to compare the hash of the key to the hash of the
    # keys in the pairs.  This could be an expensive operation, since those
    # hashes aren't retained.

class PipelinedRDD(RDD):
    """
    Pipelined maps:
    >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4])
    >>> rdd.map(lambda x: 2 * x).cache().map(lambda x: 2 * x).collect()
    [4, 8, 12, 16]
    >>> rdd.map(lambda x: 2 * x).map(lambda x: 2 * x).collect()
    [4, 8, 12, 16]

    Pipelined reduces:
    >>> from operator import add
    >>> rdd.map(lambda x: 2 * x).reduce(add)
    20
    >>> rdd.flatMap(lambda x: [x, x]).reduce(add)
    20
    """
    def __init__(self, prev, func, preservesPartitioning=False):
        if not isinstance(prev, PipelinedRDD) or not prev._is_pipelinable():
            # This transformation is the first in its stage:
            self.func = func
            self.preservesPartitioning = preservesPartitioning
            self._prev_jrdd = prev._jrdd
            self._prev_jrdd_deserializer = prev._jrdd_deserializer
        else:
            prev_func = prev.func
            def pipeline_func(split, iterator):
                return func(split, prev_func(split, iterator))
            self.func = pipeline_func
            self.preservesPartitioning = \
                prev.preservesPartitioning and preservesPartitioning
            self._prev_jrdd = prev._prev_jrdd  # maintain the pipeline
            self._prev_jrdd_deserializer = prev._prev_jrdd_deserializer
        self.is_cached = False
        self.is_checkpointed = False
        self.ctx = prev.ctx
        self.prev = prev
        self._jrdd_val = None
        self._jrdd_deserializer = self.ctx.serializer
        self._bypass_serializer = False

    @property
    def _jrdd(self):
        if self._jrdd_val:
            return self._jrdd_val
        if self._bypass_serializer:
            self._jrdd_deserializer = NoOpSerializer()
        command = (self.func, self._prev_jrdd_deserializer,
                   self._jrdd_deserializer)
        pickled_command = CloudPickleSerializer().dumps(command)
        broadcast_vars = ListConverter().convert(
            [x._jbroadcast for x in self.ctx._pickled_broadcast_vars],
            self.ctx._gateway._gateway_client)
        self.ctx._pickled_broadcast_vars.clear()
        class_tag = self._prev_jrdd.classTag()
        env = MapConverter().convert(self.ctx.environment,
                                     self.ctx._gateway._gateway_client)
        includes = ListConverter().convert(self.ctx._python_includes,
                                     self.ctx._gateway._gateway_client)
        python_rdd = self.ctx._jvm.PythonRDD(self._prev_jrdd.rdd(),
            bytearray(pickled_command), env, includes, self.preservesPartitioning,
            self.ctx.pythonExec, broadcast_vars, self.ctx._javaAccumulator,
            class_tag)
        self._jrdd_val = python_rdd.asJavaRDD()
        return self._jrdd_val

    def _is_pipelinable(self):
        return not (self.is_cached or self.is_checkpointed)


def _test():
    import doctest
    from pyspark.context import SparkContext
    globs = globals().copy()
    # The small batch size here ensures that we see multiple batches,
    # even in these small test examples:
    globs['sc'] = SparkContext('local[4]', 'PythonTest', batchSize=2)
    (failure_count, test_count) = doctest.testmod(globs=globs,optionflags=doctest.ELLIPSIS)
    globs['sc'].stop()
    if failure_count:
        exit(-1)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    _test()