pyspark.Broadcast

class pyspark.Broadcast(sc=None, value=None, pickle_registry=None, path=None, sock_file=None)

A broadcast variable created with SparkContext.broadcast(). Access its value through value.

Examples

>>> from pyspark.context import SparkContext
>>> sc = SparkContext('local', 'test')
>>> b = sc.broadcast([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
>>> b.value
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> sc.parallelize([0, 0]).flatMap(lambda x: b.value).collect()
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> b.unpersist()

>>> large_broadcast = sc.broadcast(range(10000))

Methods

destroy([blocking])	Destroy all data and metadata related to this broadcast variable.
dump(value, f)
load(file)
load_from_path(path)
unpersist([blocking])	Delete cached copies of this broadcast on the executors.

Attributes

value

Return the broadcasted value

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