Filter a pyspark.RDD with regex

Question

I have a pyspark.RDD containing dates that I would like to filter out. The dates appear in such form within my RDD:

data.collect() = ["Nujabes","Hip Hop","04:45 16 October 2018"]

I have been trying to filter these out through a regex using:

r"[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2} [A-Z][a-z]+ [0-9]{4}"

but I am doing it the wrong way:

data = data.filter(lambda x: x != r"[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2} [A-Z][a-z]+ [0-9]{4}")

For the given data above, the desired output would be

data.collect() = ["Nujabes","Hip Hop"]

Answer 1

You can filter with Python regex:

data2 = data.filter(lambda x: not re.match(r"[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2} [0-9]{2} [A-Z][a-z]+ [0-9]{4}", x))