diff --git a/python/pyspark/streaming/context.py b/python/pyspark/streaming/context.py
index 088a4965b6b13..eee298badcbad 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/streaming/context.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/streaming/context.py
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ def _testInputStream(self, test_inputs, numSlices=None):
         """
         Generate multiple files to make "stream" in Scala side for test.
         Scala chooses one of the files and generates RDD using PythonRDD.readRDDFromFile.
+
+        QueStream maybe good way to implement this function
         """
         numSlices = numSlices or self._sc.defaultParallelism
         # Calling the Java parallelize() method with an ArrayList is too slow,
diff --git a/python/pyspark/streaming/dstream.py b/python/pyspark/streaming/dstream.py
index 07429f477d310..02f35fac47ac0 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/streaming/dstream.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/streaming/dstream.py
@@ -35,25 +35,31 @@ def __init__(self, jdstream, ssc, jrdd_deserializer):
         self.ctx = ssc._sc
         self._jrdd_deserializer = jrdd_deserializer
 
+    def context(self):
+        """
+        Return the StreamingContext associated with this DStream
+        """
+        return self._ssc
+
     def count(self):
         """
         Return a new DStream which contains the number of elements in this DStream.
         """
-        return self._mapPartitions(lambda i: [sum(1 for _ in i)])._sum()
+        return self.mapPartitions(lambda i: [sum(1 for _ in i)])._sum()
 
     def _sum(self):
         """
         Add up the elements in this DStream.
         """
-        return self._mapPartitions(lambda x: [sum(x)]).reduce(operator.add)
+        return self.mapPartitions(lambda x: [sum(x)]).reduce(operator.add)
 
     def print_(self, label=None):
         """
         Since print is reserved name for python, we cannot define a "print" method function.
         This function prints serialized data in RDD in DStream because Scala and Java cannot
-        deserialized pickled python object. Please use DStream.pyprint() instead to print results.
+        deserialized pickled python object. Please use DStream.pyprint() to print results.
 
-        Call DStream.print().
+        Call DStream.print() and this function will print byte array in the DStream
         """
         # a hack to call print function in DStream
         getattr(self._jdstream, "print")(label)
@@ -63,29 +69,32 @@ def filter(self, f):
         Return a new DStream containing only the elements that satisfy predicate.
         """
         def func(iterator): return ifilter(f, iterator)
-        return self._mapPartitions(func)
+        return self.mapPartitions(func)
 
     def flatMap(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
         """
         Pass each value in the key-value pair DStream through flatMap function
         without changing the keys: this also retains the original RDD's partition.
         """
-        def func(s, iterator): return chain.from_iterable(imap(f, iterator))
+        def func(s, iterator):
+            return chain.from_iterable(imap(f, iterator))
         return self._mapPartitionsWithIndex(func, preservesPartitioning)
 
-    def map(self, f):
+    def map(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
         """
         Return a new DStream by applying a function to each element of DStream.
         """
-        def func(iterator): return imap(f, iterator)
-        return self._mapPartitions(func)
+        def func(iterator):
+            return imap(f, iterator)
+        return self.mapPartitions(func, preservesPartitioning)
 
-    def _mapPartitions(self, f):
+    def mapPartitions(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
         """
         Return a new DStream by applying a function to each partition of this DStream.
         """
-        def func(s, iterator): return f(iterator)
-        return self._mapPartitionsWithIndex(func)
+        def func(s, iterator):
+            return f(iterator)
+        return self._mapPartitionsWithIndex(func, preservesPartitioning)
 
     def _mapPartitionsWithIndex(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
         """
@@ -131,7 +140,7 @@ def combineLocally(iterator):
                 else:
                     combiners[k] = mergeValue(combiners[k], v)
             return combiners.iteritems()
-        locally_combined = self._mapPartitions(combineLocally)
+        locally_combined = self.mapPartitions(combineLocally)
         shuffled = locally_combined.partitionBy(numPartitions)
 
         def _mergeCombiners(iterator):
@@ -143,7 +152,7 @@ def _mergeCombiners(iterator):
                     combiners[k] = mergeCombiners(combiners[k], v)
             return combiners.iteritems()
 
-        return shuffled._mapPartitions(_mergeCombiners)
+        return shuffled.mapPartitions(_mergeCombiners)
 
     def partitionBy(self, numPartitions, partitionFunc=None):
         """
@@ -246,6 +255,34 @@ def takeAndPrint(rdd, time):
 
         self.foreachRDD(takeAndPrint)
 
+    def mapValues(self, f):
+        """
+        Pass each value in the key-value pair RDD through a map function
+        without changing the keys; this also retains the original RDD's
+        partitioning.
+        """
+        map_values_fn = lambda (k, v): (k, f(v))
+        return self.map(map_values_fn, preservesPartitioning=True)
+
+    def flatMapValues(self, f):
+        """
+        Pass each value in the key-value pair RDD through a flatMap function
+        without changing the keys; this also retains the original RDD's
+        partitioning.
+        """
+        flat_map_fn = lambda (k, v): ((k, x) for x in f(v))
+        return self.flatMap(flat_map_fn, preservesPartitioning=True)
+
+    def glom(self):
+        """
+        Return a new DStream in which RDD is generated by applying glom() to RDD of
+        this DStream. Applying glom() to an RDD coalesces all elements within each partition into
+        an list.
+        """
+        def func(iterator):
+            yield list(iterator)
+        return self.mapPartitions(func)
+
     #def transform(self, func): - TD
     #    from utils import RDDFunction
     #    wrapped_func = RDDFunction(self.ctx, self._jrdd_deserializer, func)
@@ -255,7 +292,7 @@ def takeAndPrint(rdd, time):
     def _test_output(self, result):
         """
         This function is only for test case.
-        Store data in a DStream to result to verify the result in tese case
+        Store data in a DStream to result to verify the result in test case
         """
         def get_output(rdd, time):
             taken = rdd.collect()
@@ -318,4 +355,4 @@ def _jdstream(self):
         return self._jdstream_val
 
     def _is_pipelinable(self):
-        return not (self.is_cached)
+        return not self.is_cached
diff --git a/python/pyspark/streaming_tests.py b/python/pyspark/streaming_tests.py
index ec45acec94dbf..25ea350ca425f 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/streaming_tests.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/streaming_tests.py
@@ -142,10 +142,54 @@ def test_func(dstream):
         output = self._run_stream(test_input, test_func, expected_output)
         self.assertEqual(expected_output, output)
 
-    def _run_stream(self, test_input, test_func, expected_output):
+    def test_mapValues(self):
+        """Basic operation test for DStream.mapValues"""
+        test_input = [["a", "a", "b"], ["", ""], []]
+
+        def test_func(dstream):
+            return dstream.map(lambda x: (x, 1)).reduceByKey(operator.add).mapValues(lambda x: x + 10)
+        expected_output = [[("a", 12), ("b", 11)], [("", 12)], []]
+        output = self._run_stream(test_input, test_func, expected_output)
+        self.assertEqual(expected_output, output)
+
+    def test_flatMapValues(self):
+        """Basic operation test for DStream.flatMapValues"""
+        test_input = [["a", "a", "b"], ["", ""], []]
+
+        def test_func(dstream):
+            return dstream.map(lambda x: (x, 1)).reduceByKey(operator.add).flatMapValues(lambda x: (x, x + 10))
+        expected_output = [[("a", 2), ("a", 12), ("b", 1), ("b", 11)], [("", 2), ("", 12)], []]
+        output = self._run_stream(test_input, test_func, expected_output)
+        self.assertEqual(expected_output, output)
+
+    def test_glom(self):
+        """Basic operation test for DStream.glom"""
+        test_input = [range(1, 5), range(5, 9), range(9, 13)]
+        numSlices = 2
+
+        def test_func(dstream):
+            dstream.pyprint()
+            return dstream.glom()
+        expected_output = [[[1,2], [3,4]],[[5,6], [7,8]],[[9,10], [11,12]]]
+        output = self._run_stream(test_input, test_func, expected_output, numSlices)
+        self.assertEqual(expected_output, output)
+
+    def test_mapPartitions(self):
+        """Basic operation test for DStream.mapPartitions"""
+        test_input = [range(1, 5), range(5, 9), range(9, 13)]
+        numSlices = 2
+
+        def test_func(dstream):
+            dstream.pyprint()
+            return dstream.mapPartitions(lambda x: reduce(operator.add, x))
+        expected_output = [[3, 7],[11, 15],[19, 23]]
+        output = self._run_stream(test_input, test_func, expected_output, numSlices)
+        self.assertEqual(expected_output, output)
+
+    def _run_stream(self, test_input, test_func, expected_output, numSlices=None):
         """Start stream and return the output"""
         # Generate input stream with user-defined input
-        test_input_stream = self.ssc._testInputStream(test_input)
+        test_input_stream = self.ssc._testInputStream(test_input, numSlices)
         # Apply test function to stream
         test_stream = test_func(test_input_stream)
         # Add job to get output from stream