pyspark foreach with arguments

Question

Reading pyspark documentation I know that a foreach is done as:

def f(x): print(x)
sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).foreach(f)

But, what if I use a function with several arguments?

An example:

def f(x,arg1,arg2,arg3): 
    print(x*arg1+arg2+arg3)

The point is to use something similar this syntax:

sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).foreach(f(arg1=11,arg2=21,arg3=31))

Answer 1

You can make a partial function:

from functools import partial

sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).foreach(
    partial(f, arg1=11, arg2=21, arg3=31)
 )

partial takes as input a function and a sequence of unnamed (*args) and named (**kwargs) parameters, and produces a new function that if you call that function will call the original function f, with the unnamed and named parameters already filled in.