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-rw-r--r--python/pyspark/rdd.py6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/python/pyspark/rdd.py b/python/pyspark/rdd.py
index ca2dc119a4..019c249699 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/rdd.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/rdd.py
@@ -693,11 +693,11 @@ class RDD(object):
"""
Get the top N elements from a RDD.
- Note: It returns the list sorted in ascending order.
+ 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]).cache().top(2)
- [5, 6]
+ [6, 5]
"""
def topIterator(iterator):
q = []
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ class RDD(object):
def merge(a, b):
return next(topIterator(a + b))
- return sorted(self.mapPartitions(topIterator).reduce(merge))
+ return sorted(self.mapPartitions(topIterator).reduce(merge), reverse=True)
def take(self, num):
"""