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[jira] [Commented] (PIG-2529) Creation of a Python PiggyBank

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Prashant Kommireddi commented on PIG-2529:
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Could this be extended to a generic UDF instead of only single item tuples? By more generic I mean it would be useful to convert any number of items within the inner tuples to be extracted into a single tuple. Optionally, it could take an argument (integer) that specifies the number of items from inner tuples that need to be extracted to a single tuple.

Eg, {(1),(2),(3)} => (1,2,3)
{(1,4),(2,5),(3,6)} => (1,4,2,5,3,6)

If you pass an argument to the UDF, lets say we want only the first elements from inner tuples the output should be
{(1,4),(2,5),(3,6)} => (1,2,3)

This way we provide some flexibility to users of the UDF.
                
> Creation of a Python PiggyBank
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-2529
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2529
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: piggybank
>            Reporter: Eli Finkelshteyn
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: piggybank, python
>
> As per a conversation on the Pig user list, I think it makes sense to create a PiggyBank for Python functions. To get us started, here's something short and quick I wrote to convert a bag of single item tuples to one single tuple:
> @outputSchema("t:tuple()")                                                             
> def bagToTuple(bag):                                                                           
>   t = tuple([item[0] for item in bag])                                                 
>   return t

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