From 060d2b27a95586a80b6c2a00a22feeca95b614e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harry Brundage <harry.brundage@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:09:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow the setting of a Pyspark RDD's name attribute

---
 python/pyspark/rdd.py | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/python/pyspark/rdd.py b/python/pyspark/rdd.py
index 019c249699c2d..1f75dd430ee98 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/rdd.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/rdd.py
@@ -122,6 +122,20 @@ def context(self):
         """
         return self.ctx
 
+    @property
+    def name(self):
+        """
+        A friendly name for this RDD
+        """
+        return self._jrdd.name()
+
+    @name.setter
+    def name(self, name):
+        """
+        Sets the friendly name for this RDD
+        """
+        return self._jrdd.setName(name)
+
     def cache(self):
         """
         Persist this RDD with the default storage level (C{MEMORY_ONLY}).