Pivot Spark data frame using python

from pyspark.sql.functions import avg

flights = (sqlContext
    .read
    .format("csv")
    .options(inferSchema="true", header="true")
    .load("flights.csv")
    .na.drop())

flights.registerTempTable("flights")
sqlContext.cacheTable("flights")

gexprs = ("origin", "dest", "carrier")
aggexpr = avg("arr_delay")

flights.count()
## 336776

%timeit -n10 flights.groupBy(*gexprs ).pivot("hour").agg(aggexpr).count()
## 10 loops, best of 3: 1.03 s per loop