pyspark.RDD.leftOuterJoin

RDD.leftOuterJoin(other: pyspark.rdd.RDD[Tuple[K, U]], numPartitions: Optional[int] = None) → pyspark.rdd.RDD[Tuple[K, Tuple[V, Optional[U]]]]

Perform a left outer join of self and other.

For each element (k, v) in self, the resulting RDD will either contain all pairs (k, (v, w)) for w in other, or the pair (k, (v, None)) if no elements in other have key k.

Hash-partitions the resulting RDD into the given number of partitions.

Examples

>>> x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 4)])
>>> y = sc.parallelize([("a", 2)])
>>> sorted(x.leftOuterJoin(y).collect())
[('a', (1, 2)), ('b', (4, None))]

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