Remove an element from a Python list of lists in PySpark DataFrame

Question

I am trying to remove an element from a Python list of lists:

+---------------+
|        sources|
+---------------+
|           [62]|
|        [7, 32]|
|           [62]|
|   [18, 36, 62]|
|[7, 31, 36, 62]|
|    [7, 32, 62]|

I want to be able to remove an element, rm, from each of the lists in the list above. I wrote a function that can do that for a list of lists:

def asdf(df, rm):
    temp = df
    for n in range(len(df)):
        temp[n] = [x for x in df[n] if x != rm]
    return(temp)

which does remove rm = 1:

a = [[1,2,3],[1,2,3,4],[1,2,3,4,5]]
In:  asdf(a,1)
Out: [[2, 3], [2, 3, 4], [2, 3, 4, 5]]

But I can't get it to work for a DataFrame:

asdfUDF = udf(asdf, ArrayType(IntegerType()))

In: df.withColumn("src_ex", asdfUDF("sources", 32))

Out: Py4JError: An error occurred while calling z:org.apache.spark.sql.functions.col. Trace:
py4j.Py4JException: Method col([class java.lang.Integer]) does not exist

Desired behavior:

In: df.withColumn("src_ex", asdfUDF("sources", 32))
Out: 

+---------------+
|         src_ex|
+---------------+
|           [62]|
|            [7]|
|           [62]|
|   [18, 36, 62]|
|[7, 31, 36, 62]|
|        [7, 62]|

(except have the new column above appended to a PySpark DataFrame, df)

Any suggestions or ideas?

zero323 · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-25 21:35:46Z

Spark >= 2.4

You can use array_remove:

from pyspark.sql.functions import array_remove

df.withColumn("src_ex", array_remove("sources", 32)).show()

+---------------+---------------+
|        sources|         src_ex|
+---------------+---------------+
|           [62]|           [62]|
|        [7, 32]|            [7]|
|           [62]|           [62]|
|   [18, 36, 62]|   [18, 36, 62]|
|[7, 31, 36, 62]|[7, 31, 36, 62]|
|    [7, 32, 62]|        [7, 62]|
+---------------+---------------+

or filter:

from pyspark.sql.functions import expr

df.withColumn("src_ex", expr("filter(sources, x -> not(x <=> 32))")).show()

+---------------+---------------+
|        sources|         src_ex|
+---------------+---------------+
|           [62]|           [62]|
|        [7, 32]|            [7]|
|           [62]|           [62]|
|   [18, 36, 62]|   [18, 36, 62]|
|[7, 31, 36, 62]|[7, 31, 36, 62]|
|    [7, 32, 62]|        [7, 62]|
+---------------+---------------+

Spark < 2.4

A number of things:

DataFrame is not a list of lists. In practice it is not even a plain Python object, it has no len and it is not Iterable.
Column you have looks like plain array type.
You cannot reference DataFrame (or any other distributed data structure inside UDF).
Every argument passed directly to UDF call has to be a str (column name) or Column object. To pass literal use lit function.

The only thing that remains is just a list comprehension:

from pyspark.sql.functions import lit, udf

def drop_from_array_(arr, item):
    return [x for x in arr if x != item]

drop_from_array = udf(drop_from_array_, ArrayType(IntegerType()))

Example usage:

df = sc.parallelize([
    [62], [7, 32], [62], [18, 36, 62], [7, 31, 36, 62], [7, 32, 62]
]).map(lambda x: (x, )).toDF(["sources"])

df.withColumn("src_ex", drop_from_array("sources", lit(32)))

The result:

+---------------+---------------+
|        sources|         src_ex|
+---------------+---------------+
|           [62]|           [62]|
|        [7, 32]|            [7]|
|           [62]|           [62]|
|   [18, 36, 62]|   [18, 36, 62]|
|[7, 31, 36, 62]|[7, 31, 36, 62]|
|    [7, 32, 62]|        [7, 62]|
+---------------+---------------+

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