I've got a dataframe with a column looking like this: display(flight.select("duration").show())
+--------+ |duration| +--------+ | 15h10m| | 17h0m| | 21h25m| | 14h30m| | 24h50m| | 26h10m| | 14h30m| | 23h5m| | 21h30m| | 11h50m| | 16h10m| | 15h15m| | 21h25m| | 14h25m| | 14h40m| | 16h0m| | 24h20m| | 14h30m| | 14h25m| | 14h30m| +--------+ only showing top 20 rows I need to extract the hour as a number and store it as an additional column within the same dataframe. What's the best way to do that? I tried the following, but it failed: import re def getHours(x): return re.match('([0-9]+(?=h))', x) temp = flight.select("duration").rdd.map(lambda x:getHours(x[0])).toDF() temp.select("duration").show() error message: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Py4JJavaError Traceback (most recent call last)<ipython-input-89-1d5bec255302> in <module>() 2 def getHours(x): 3 return re.match('([0-9]+(?=h))', x)----> 4 temp = flight.select("duration").rdd.map(lambda x:getHours(x[0])).toDF() 5 temp.select("duration").show() C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\sql\session.py in toDF(self, schema, sampleRatio) 55 [Row(name=u'Alice', age=1)] 56 """---> 57 return sparkSession.createDataFrame(self, schema, sampleRatio) 58 59 RDD.toDF = toDF C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\sql\session.py in createDataFrame(self, data, schema, samplingRatio, verifySchema) 518 519 if isinstance(data, RDD):--> 520 rdd, schema = self._createFromRDD(data.map(prepare), schema, samplingRatio) 521 else: 522 rdd, schema = self._createFromLocal(map(prepare, data), schema) C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\sql\session.py in _createFromRDD(self, rdd, schema, samplingRatio) 358 """ 359 if schema is None or isinstance(schema, (list, tuple)):--> 360 struct = self._inferSchema(rdd, samplingRatio) 361 converter = _create_converter(struct) 362 rdd = rdd.map(converter) C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\sql\session.py in _inferSchema(self, rdd, samplingRatio) 329 :return: :class:`pyspark.sql.types.StructType` 330 """--> 331 first = rdd.first() 332 if not first: 333 raise ValueError("The first row in RDD is empty, " C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\rdd.py in first(self) 1359 ValueError: RDD is empty 1360 """-> 1361 rs = self.take(1) 1362 if rs: 1363 return rs[0] C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\rdd.py in take(self, num) 1341 1342 p = range(partsScanned, min(partsScanned + numPartsToTry, totalParts))-> 1343 res = self.context.runJob(self, takeUpToNumLeft, p) 1344 1345 items += res C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\context.py in runJob(self, rdd, partitionFunc, partitions, allowLocal) 963 # SparkContext#runJob. 964 mappedRDD = rdd.mapPartitions(partitionFunc)--> 965 port = self._jvm.PythonRDD.runJob(self._jsc.sc(), mappedRDD._jrdd, partitions) 966 return list(_load_from_socket(port, mappedRDD._jrdd_deserializer)) 967 C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\py4j-0.10.4-src.zip\py4j\java_gateway.py in __call__(self, *args) 1131 answer = self.gateway_client.send_command(command) 1132 return_value = get_return_value(-> 1133 answer, self.gateway_client, self.target_id, self.name) 1134 1135 for temp_arg in temp_args: C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\sql\utils.py in deco(*a, **kw) 61 def deco(*a, **kw): 62 try:---> 63 return f(*a, **kw) 64 except py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError as e: 65 s = e.java_exception.toString() C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\py4j-0.10.4-src.zip\py4j\protocol.py in get_return_value(answer, gateway_client, target_id, name) 317 raise Py4JJavaError( 318 "An error occurred while calling {0}{1}{2}.\n".--> 319 format(target_id, ".", name), value) 320 else: 321 raise Py4JError( Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling z:org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD.runJob. : org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 0 in stage 75.0 failed 1 times, most recent failure: Lost task 0.0 in stage 75.0 (TID 1035, localhost, executor driver): org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonException: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\pyspark.zip\pyspark\worker.py", line 174, in main File "C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\pyspark.zip\pyspark\worker.py", line 169, in process File "C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\pyspark.zip\pyspark\serializers.py", line 272, in dump_stream bytes = self.serializer.dumps(vs) File "C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\pyspark.zip\pyspark\serializers.py", line 427, in dumps return pickle.dumps(obj, protocol) _pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <class '_sre.SRE_Match'>: attribute lookup SRE_Match on _sre failed at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner$$anon$1.read(PythonRDD.scala:193) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner$$anon$1.<init>(PythonRDD.scala:234) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner.compute(PythonRDD.scala:152) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD.compute(PythonRDD.scala:63) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:323) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:287) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:87) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:99) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:282) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Driver stacktrace: at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.org$apache$spark$scheduler$DAGScheduler$$failJobAndIndependentStages(DAGScheduler.scala:1435) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1423) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1422) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:59) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:48) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.abortStage(DAGScheduler.scala:1422) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:802) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:802) at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:257) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.handleTaskSetFailed(DAGScheduler.scala:802) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.doOnReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1650) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1605) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1594) at org.apache.spark.util.EventLoop$$anon$1.run(EventLoop.scala:48) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.runJob(DAGScheduler.scala:628) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1918) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1931) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1944) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD$.runJob(PythonRDD.scala:441) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD.runJob(PythonRDD.scala) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244) at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357) at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:280) at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132) at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79) at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:214) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) Caused by: org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonException: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\pyspark.zip\pyspark\worker.py", line 174, in main File "C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\pyspark.zip\pyspark\worker.py", line 169, in process File "C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\pyspark.zip\pyspark\serializers.py", line 272, in dump_stream bytes = self.serializer.dumps(vs) File "C:\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7\python\lib\pyspark.zip\pyspark\serializers.py", line 427, in dumps return pickle.dumps(obj, protocol) _pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <class '_sre.SRE_Match'>: attribute lookup SRE_Match on _sre failed at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner$$anon$1.read(PythonRDD.scala:193) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner$$anon$1.<init>(PythonRDD.scala:234) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner.compute(PythonRDD.scala:152) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD.compute(PythonRDD.scala:63) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:323) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:287) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:87) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:99) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:282) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) ... 1 more