Iterate over an array column in PySpark with map

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In PySpark I have a dataframe composed by two columns:

+-----------+----------------------+
| str1      | array_of_str         |
+-----------+----------------------+
| John      | [mango, apple, ...   |
| Tom       | [mango, orange, ...  |
| Matteo    | [apple, banana, ...  |

I want to add a column concat_result that contains the concatenation of each element inside array_of_str with the string inside str1 column.

+-----------+----------------------+----------------------------------+
| str1      | array_of_str         | concat_result                    |
+-----------+----------------------+----------------------------------+
| John      | [mango, apple, ...   | [mangoJohn, appleJohn, ...       |
| Tom       | [mango, orange, ...  | [mangoTom, orangeTom, ...        |
| Matteo    | [apple, banana, ...  | [appleMatteo, bananaMatteo, ...  |

I'm trying to use map to iterate over the array:

from pyspark.sql import functions as F
from pyspark.sql.types import StringType, ArrayType

# START EXTRACT OF CODE
ret = (df
  .select(['str1', 'array_of_str'])
  .withColumn('concat_result', F.udf(
     map(lambda x: x + F.col('str1'), F.col('array_of_str')), ArrayType(StringType))
  )
)

return ret
# END EXTRACT OF CODE

but I obtain as error:

TypeError: argument 2 to map() must support iteration
pyspark apache-spark python
1 Answers

You only need small tweaks to make this work:

from pyspark.sql.types import StringType, ArrayType
from pyspark.sql.functions import udf, col

concat_udf = udf(lambda con_str, arr: [x + con_str for x in arr],
                   ArrayType(StringType()))
ret = df \
  .select(['str1', 'array_of_str']) \
  .withColumn('concat_result', concat_udf(col("str1"), col("array_of_str")))

ret.show()

You don't need to use map, standard list comprehension is sufficient.

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