pyspark.RDD.collect

RDD.collect()

Return a list that contains all the elements in this RDD.

New in version 0.7.0.

Returns

list

a list containing all the elements

See also

RDD.toLocalIterator()

pyspark.sql.DataFrame.collect()

Notes

This method should only be used if the resulting array is expected to be small, as all the data is loaded into the driver’s memory.

Examples

>>> sc.range(5).collect()
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> sc.parallelize(["x", "y", "z"]).collect()
['x', 'y', 'z']