pyspark-iomete 0.0.2

IOMETE's PySpark library that contains useful utilities for working with PySpark

Pyspark IOMETE Library

This library is providing a set of utility functions to speed up the development of pyspark applications.

Installation

pip install pyspark-iomete

Utility functions

get_spark_logger

This function is returning a spark logger instance.

As you may know, spark is using log4j as a logging framework. This function is returning a spark logger instance that is using the log4j logger. Standard python logging is not working with pyspark. The following function get the spark logger instance and returns it.

Usage:

from pyspark_iomete.utils import get_spark_logger
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
logger = get_spark_logger(spark=spark)

# or with a custom name
logger = get_spark_logger(spark=spark, name="my_custom_logger")

Test utility functions

table_name_with_random_suffix

This function is returning a table name with a random suffix. This is useful for testing purposes.

Usage:

from pyspark_iomete.test_utils import table_name_with_random_suffix

table_name = table_name_with_random_suffix("my_table")