from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
dataList = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
rdd = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(dataList)
rdd2 = rdd.flatMap(lambda x: str(x))
data = rdd2.collect()
for x in data:
    print(type(x), x)