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Diffstat (limited to 'python/pyspark/context.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | python/pyspark/context.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/python/pyspark/context.py b/python/pyspark/context.py index 84bc0a3b7c..3ab98e262d 100644 --- a/python/pyspark/context.py +++ b/python/pyspark/context.py @@ -331,12 +331,16 @@ class SparkContext(object): return RDD(self._jsc.objectFile(name, minPartitions), self, BatchedSerializer(PickleSerializer())) - def textFile(self, name, minPartitions=None): + def textFile(self, name, minPartitions=None, use_unicode=True): """ Read a text file from HDFS, a local file system (available on all nodes), or any Hadoop-supported file system URI, and return it as an RDD of Strings. + If use_unicode is False, the strings will be kept as `str` (encoding + as `utf-8`), which is faster and smaller than unicode. (Added in + Spark 1.2) + >>> path = os.path.join(tempdir, "sample-text.txt") >>> with open(path, "w") as testFile: ... testFile.write("Hello world!") @@ -346,9 +350,9 @@ class SparkContext(object): """ minPartitions = minPartitions or min(self.defaultParallelism, 2) return RDD(self._jsc.textFile(name, minPartitions), self, - UTF8Deserializer()) + UTF8Deserializer(use_unicode)) - def wholeTextFiles(self, path, minPartitions=None): + def wholeTextFiles(self, path, minPartitions=None, use_unicode=True): """ Read a directory of text files from HDFS, a local file system (available on all nodes), or any Hadoop-supported file system @@ -356,6 +360,10 @@ class SparkContext(object): key-value pair, where the key is the path of each file, the value is the content of each file. + If use_unicode is False, the strings will be kept as `str` (encoding + as `utf-8`), which is faster and smaller than unicode. (Added in + Spark 1.2) + For example, if you have the following files:: hdfs://a-hdfs-path/part-00000 @@ -386,7 +394,7 @@ class SparkContext(object): """ minPartitions = minPartitions or self.defaultMinPartitions return RDD(self._jsc.wholeTextFiles(path, minPartitions), self, - PairDeserializer(UTF8Deserializer(), UTF8Deserializer())) + PairDeserializer(UTF8Deserializer(use_unicode), UTF8Deserializer(use_unicode))) def _dictToJavaMap(self, d): jm = self._jvm.java.util.HashMap() |