GitHub user zero323 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18052
[SPARK-20347][PYSPARK][WIP] Provide AsyncRDDActions in Python ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? Adds asynchronous RDD actions (`collectAsync`, `countAsync`, `foreach(Partition)Async` and `takeAsync`) using `concurrent.futures` with `ThreadPoolExecutor`. In Python < 3.2 it requires a backported [`futures` package](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures) installed on the driver. ## How was this patch tested? Unit tests. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/zero323/spark SPARK-20347 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/18052.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #18052 ---- commit 72bd097896aca042944d8e20282617e4864d9dd0 Author: zero323 <zero...@users.noreply.github.com> Date: 2017-05-21T21:08:09Z Initial commit ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org