takeOrdered descending Pyspark

Question

i would like to sort K/V pairs by values and then take the biggest five values. I managed to do this with reverting K/V with first map, sort in descending order with FALSE, and

Answer 1

Sort by keys (ascending):

RDD.takeOrdered(5, key = lambda x: x[0])

Sort by keys (descending):

RDD.takeOrdered(5, key = lambda x: -x[0])

Sort by values (ascending):

RDD.takeOrdered(5, key = lambda x: x[1])

Sort by values (descending):

RDD.takeOrdered(5, key = lambda x: -x[1])