Github user davies commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/6081#issuecomment-102572538
Could you add `range()` for RDD in Python? It could be something like this:
```
sc.parallelize(xrange(start, end, step), numPartition)
```
It will be more efficient than using the jsc.range(), do not need to
serialize the values from JVM to Python.
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