Sort

An example PySpark sort job.

Code sample

Python

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import pyspark

sc = pyspark.SparkContext()
rdd = sc.parallelize(["Hello,", "world!", "dog", "elephant", "panther"])
words = sorted(rdd.collect())
print(words)

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