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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+"""
+Randomly generated RDDs.
+"""
+
+import sys
+
+from pyspark import SparkContext
+from pyspark.mllib.random import RandomRDDs
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    if len(sys.argv) not in [1, 2]:
+        print >> sys.stderr, "Usage: random_rdd_generation"
+        exit(-1)
+
+    sc = SparkContext(appName="PythonRandomRDDGeneration")
+
+    numExamples = 10000 # number of examples to generate
+    fraction = 0.1 # fraction of data to sample
+
+    # Example: RandomRDDs.normalRDD
+    normalRDD = RandomRDDs.normalRDD(sc, numExamples)
+    print 'Generated RDD of %d examples sampled from the standard normal distribution'\
+        % normalRDD.count()
+    print '  First 5 samples:'
+    for sample in normalRDD.take(5):
+        print '    ' + str(sample)
+    print
+
+    # Example: RandomRDDs.normalVectorRDD
+    normalVectorRDD = RandomRDDs.normalVectorRDD(sc, numRows = numExamples, numCols = 2)
+    print 'Generated RDD of %d examples of length-2 vectors.' % normalVectorRDD.count()
+    print '  First 5 samples:'
+    for sample in normalVectorRDD.take(5):
+        print '    ' + str(sample)
+    print
+
+    sc.stop()