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Coda. How To Make a Password Cracking Cluster - Antionline Forums. Rocketcalc.com. Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python. In this tutorial I will describe how to write a simple MapReduce program for Hadoop in the Python programming language.

Writing An Hadoop MapReduce Program In Python

Even though the Hadoop framework is written in Java, programs for Hadoop need not to be coded in Java but can also be developed in other languages like Python or C++ (the latter since version 0.14.1). However, Hadoop’s documentation and the most prominent Python example on the Hadoop website could make you think that you must translate your Python code using Jython into a Java jar file. Obviously, this is not very convenient and can even be problematic if you depend on Python features not provided by Jython.