fix print and docs

python/pyspark/streaming/dstream.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 from itertools import chain, ifilter, imap
 import operator
+from datetime import datetime
 
 from pyspark import RDD
 from pyspark.storagelevel import StorageLevel
@@ -54,17 +55,6 @@ def sum(self):
         """
         return self.mapPartitions(lambda x: [sum(x)]).reduce(operator.add)
 
-    def print_(self, label=None):
-        """
-        Since print is reserved name for python, we cannot define a "print" method function.
-        This function prints serialized data in RDD in DStream because Scala and Java cannot
-        deserialized pickled python object. Please use DStream.pyprint() to print results.
-
-        Call DStream.print() and this function will print byte array in the DStream
-        """
-        # a hack to call print function in DStream
-        getattr(self._jdstream, "print")(label)
-
     def filter(self, f):
         """
         Return a new DStream containing only the elements that satisfy predicate.
@@ -154,19 +144,15 @@ def foreachRDD(self, func):
         jfunc = RDDFunction(self.ctx, func, self._jrdd_deserializer)
         self.ctx._jvm.PythonForeachDStream(self._jdstream.dstream(), jfunc)
 
-    def pyprint(self):
+    def pprint(self):
         """
         Print the first ten elements of each RDD generated in this DStream. This is an output
         operator, so this DStream will be registered as an output stream and there materialized.
         """
         def takeAndPrint(rdd, time):
-            """
-            Closure to take element from RDD and print first 10 elements.
-            This closure is called by py4j callback server.
-            """
             taken = rdd.take(11)
             print "-------------------------------------------"
-            print "Time: %s" % (str(time))
+            print "Time: %s" % datetime.fromtimestamp(time / 1000.0)
             print "-------------------------------------------"
             for record in taken[:10]:
                 print record
@@ -176,6 +162,20 @@ def takeAndPrint(rdd, time):
 
         self.foreachRDD(takeAndPrint)
 
+    def collect(self):
+        """
+        Collect each RDDs into the returned list.
+
+        :return: list, which will have the collected items.
+        """
+        result = []
+
+        def get_output(rdd, time):
+            r = rdd.collect()
+            result.append(r)
+        self.foreachRDD(get_output)
+        return result
+
     def mapValues(self, f):
         """
         Pass each value in the key-value pair RDD through a map function
@@ -196,9 +196,9 @@ def flatMapValues(self, f):
 
     def glom(self):
         """
-        Return a new DStream in which RDD is generated by applying glom() to RDD of
-        this DStream. Applying glom() to an RDD coalesces all elements within each partition into
-        an list.
+        Return a new DStream in which RDD is generated by applying glom()
+        to RDD of this DStream. Applying glom() to an RDD coalesces all
+        elements within each partition into an list.
         """
         def func(iterator):
             yield list(iterator)
@@ -228,11 +228,11 @@ def checkpoint(self, interval):
         Mark this DStream for checkpointing. It will be saved to a file inside the
         checkpoint directory set with L{SparkContext.setCheckpointDir()}
 
-        @param interval: Time interval after which generated RDD will be checkpointed
-               interval has to be pyspark.streaming.duration.Duration
+        @param interval: time in seconds, after which generated RDD will
+                         be checkpointed
         """
         self.is_checkpointed = True
-        self._jdstream.checkpoint(interval._jduration)
+        self._jdstream.checkpoint(self._ssc._jduration(interval))
         return self
 
     def groupByKey(self, numPartitions=None):
@@ -245,7 +245,6 @@ def groupByKey(self, numPartitions=None):
         Note: If you are grouping in order to perform an aggregation (such as a
         sum or average) over each key, using reduceByKey will provide much
         better performance.
-
         """
         return self.transform(lambda rdd: rdd.groupByKey(numPartitions))
 
@@ -288,15 +287,6 @@ def saveAsPickleFile(rdd, time):
 
         return self.foreachRDD(saveAsPickleFile)
 
-    def collect(self):
-        result = []
-
-        def get_output(rdd, time):
-            r = rdd.collect()
-            result.append(r)
-        self.foreachRDD(get_output)
-        return result
-
     def transform(self, func):
         return TransformedDStream(self, lambda a, t: func(a), True)