fix sortByKey() with take()

Author: davies

python/pyspark/rdd.py

@@ -575,6 +575,8 @@ def sortByKey(self, ascending=True, numPartitions=None, keyfunc=lambda x: x):
         # noqa
 
         >>> tmp = [('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('1', 3), ('d', 4), ('2', 5)]
+        >>> sc.parallelize(tmp).sortByKey().first()
+        ('1', 3)
         >>> sc.parallelize(tmp).sortByKey(True, 1).collect()
         [('1', 3), ('2', 5), ('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('d', 4)]
         >>> sc.parallelize(tmp).sortByKey(True, 2).collect()
@@ -587,14 +589,13 @@ def sortByKey(self, ascending=True, numPartitions=None, keyfunc=lambda x: x):
         if numPartitions is None:
             numPartitions = self._defaultReducePartitions()
 
+        def sortPartition(iterator):
+            return iter(sorted(iterator, key=lambda (k, v): keyfunc(k), reverse=not ascending))
+
         if numPartitions == 1:
             if self.getNumPartitions() > 1:
                 self = self.coalesce(1)
-
-            def sort(iterator):
-                return sorted(iterator, reverse=(not ascending), key=lambda (k, v): keyfunc(k))
-
-            return self.mapPartitions(sort)
+            return self.mapPartitions(sortPartition)
 
         # first compute the boundary of each part via sampling: we want to partition
         # the key-space into bins such that the bins have roughly the same
@@ -610,17 +611,14 @@ def sort(iterator):
         bounds = [samples[len(samples) * (i + 1) / numPartitions]
                   for i in range(0, numPartitions - 1)]
 
-        def rangePartitionFunc(k):
+        def rangePartitioner(k):
             p = bisect.bisect_left(bounds, keyfunc(k))
             if ascending:
                 return p
             else:
                 return numPartitions - 1 - p
 
-        def mapFunc(iterator):
-            return sorted(iterator, reverse=(not ascending), key=lambda (k, v): keyfunc(k))
-
-        return self.partitionBy(numPartitions, rangePartitionFunc).mapPartitions(mapFunc, True)
+        return self.partitionBy(numPartitions, rangePartitioner).mapPartitions(sortPartition, True)
 
     def sortBy(self, keyfunc, ascending=True, numPartitions=None):
         """