.take(...) action

We have already discussed this, but, for the sake of completeness, the take(n) action returns an array with the first n elements of the RDD. Look at the following code:

# Print to console the first 3 elements of
# the airports RDD
airports.take(3)

This will generate the following output:

# Output
[[u'City', u'State', u'Country', u'IATA'], 
 [u'Abbotsford', u'BC', u'Canada', u'YXX'], 
 [u'Aberdeen', u'SD', u'USA', u'ABR']]