-import pyarrow.dataset as ds
+pimport pyarrow.dataset as ds
from itertools import chain, groupby, islice
# A pyarrow dataset abstracts reading, writing, or filtering a parquet file. It does not read dataa into memory.
#dataset = ds.dataset(pathlib.Path('/gscratch/comdata/output/reddit_submissions_by_subreddit.parquet/'), format='parquet', partitioning='hive')
-dataset = ds.dataset('/gscratch/comdata/output/reddit_submissions_by_author.parquet', format='parquet', partitioning='hive')
+dataset = ds.dataset('/gscratch/comdata/output/reddit_submissions_by_author.parquet', format='parquet')
# let's get all the comments to two subreddits:
subreddits_to_pull = ['seattlewa','seattle']
# instead of loading the data into a pandas dataframe all at once we can stream it. This lets us start working with it while it is read.
scan_tasks = dataset.scan(filter = ds.field('subreddit').isin(subreddits_to_pull), columns=['id','subreddit','CreatedAt','author','ups','downs','score','subreddit_id','stickied','title','url','is_self','selftext'])
-# simple function to execute scantasks and create a stream of pydict rows
-def execute_scan_task(st):
- # an executed scan task yields an iterator of record_batches
- def unroll_record_batch(rb):
- df = rb.to_pandas()
- return df.itertuples()
+# simple function to execute scantasks and create a stream of rows
+def iterate_rows(scan_tasks):
+ for st in scan_tasks:
+ for rb in st.execute():
+ df = rb.to_pandas()
+ for t in df.itertuples():
+ yield t
- for rb in st.execute():
- yield unroll_record_batch(rb)
-
-
-# now we just need to flatten and we have our iterator
-row_iter = chain.from_iterable(chain.from_iterable(map(lambda st: execute_scan_task(st), scan_tasks)))
+row_iter = iterate_rows(scan_tasks)
# now we can use python's groupby function to read one author at a time
# note that the same author can appear more than once since the record batches may not be in the correct order.
author_submissions = groupby(row_iter, lambda row: row.author)
+
+count_dict = {}
+
for auth, posts in author_submissions:
- print(f"{auth} has {len(list(posts))} posts")
+ if auth in count_dict:
+ count_dict[auth] = count_dict[auth] + 1
+ else:
+ count_dict[auth] = 1
+
+# since it's partitioned and sorted by author, we get one group for each author
+any([ v != 1 for k,v in count_dict.items()])
+