merge left outer join pandas code example

Example 1: pandas left join

df.merge(df2, left_on = "doc_id", right_on = "doc_num", how = "left")

Example 2: Perform a left outer join of self and other.

x = sc.parallelize([("a", 1), ("b", 4)])
y = sc.parallelize([("a", 2)])
sorted(x.leftOuterJoin(y).collect())
# [('a', (1, 2)), ('b', (4, None))]