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Re: None. wtf is None?Robert Yerex 2012-07-24, 13:50
Python UDF? That would explain the None instead of null
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Russell Jurney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Can someone explain this script to me? It is freaking me out. When did Pig > start spitting out 'None' in place of null? > > register /me/pig/build/ivy/lib/Pig/avro-1.5.3.jar > register /me/pig/build/ivy/lib/Pig/json-simple-1.1.jar > register /me/pig/contrib/piggybank/java/piggybank.jar > > define AvroStorage org.apache.pig.piggybank.storage.avro.AvroStorage(); > > rmf /tmp/sent_mails > rmf /tmp/replies > > /* Get rid of emails with reply_to, as they confuse everything in mailing > lists. */ > avro_emails = load '/me/tmp/thu_emails' using AvroStorage(); > clean_emails = filter avro_emails by froms is not null and reply_tos is > null; > > /* Treat emails without in_reply_to as sent emails */ > combined_emails = foreach clean_emails generate froms, tos, message_id; > *sent_mails = foreach combined_emails generate flatten(froms.address) as > from, * > * flatten(tos.address) as to, > * > * message_id;* > store sent_mails into '/tmp/sent_mails'; > > /* Treat in_reply_tos separately, as our FLATTEN() will filter otu the > nulls */ > *replies = filter clean_emails by in_reply_to is not null;* > *replies = foreach replies generate flatten(froms.address) as from,* > * flatten(tos.address) as to,* > * in_reply_to;* > store replies into '/tmp/replies'; > > > Despite filtering replies to emails that only have the 'in_reply_to' > field... I get the same number of records in both relations I store: > > russell-jurneys-macbook-pro:pig rjurney$ cat /tmp/sent_mails/p*|wc -l > 17431 > russell-jurneys-macbook-pro:pig rjurney$ cat /tmp/replies/p*|wc -l > 17431 > > > Investigating shows me: > > cat /tmp/replies/part-00001 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] None > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] None > > > Where did *None* come from? I thought FLATTEN would prune records with > empty columns, and I'm ok with it not but... what operators does None > respond to? It is not null. How do I prune these? > -- > Russell Jurney twitter.com/rjurney [EMAIL PROTECTED] > datasyndrome.com > -- Robert Yerex Data Scientist Civitas Learning www.civitaslearning.com |