pyspark.SparkContext.emptyRDD

SparkContext.emptyRDD() → pyspark.rdd.RDD[Any][source]

Create an RDD that has no partitions or elements.

New in version 1.5.0.

Returns
RDD

An empty RDD

Examples

>>> sc.emptyRDD()
EmptyRDD...
>>> sc.emptyRDD().count()
0
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