diff --git a/python/pyspark/streaming/dstream.py b/python/pyspark/streaming/dstream.py
index 8eea3f4d52782..cfadef941a551 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/streaming/dstream.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/streaming/dstream.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ 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):
         """
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ def print_(self, label=None):
         deserialized pickled python object. Please use DStream.pyprint() to print results.
 
         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)
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ 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):
         """
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ def func(s, iterator):
             return chain.from_iterable(imap(f, iterator))
         return self._mapPartitionsWithIndex(func, preservesPartitioning)
 
-    def map(self, f, preservesPartitioning=False):
+    def map(self, f):
         """
         Return a new DStream by applying a function to each element of DStream.
         """
@@ -217,13 +218,11 @@ def _defaultReducePartitions(self):
             return 2
 
     def getNumPartitions(self):
-      """
-      Returns the number of partitions in RDD
-      >>> rdd = sc.parallelize([1, 2, 3, 4], 2)
-      >>> rdd.getNumPartitions()
-      2
-      """
-      return self._jdstream.partitions().size()
+        """
+        Return the number of partitions in RDD
+        """
+        # TODO: remove hardcoding. RDD has NumPartitions but DStream does not have.
+        return 2
 
     def foreachRDD(self, func):
         """
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaDStreamLike.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaDStreamLike.scala
index cfa336df8674f..a2b9d581f609c 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaDStreamLike.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaDStreamLike.scala
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ trait JavaDStreamLike[T, This <: JavaDStreamLike[T, This, R], R <: JavaRDDLike[T
    * operator, so this PythonDStream will be registered as an output stream and there materialized.
    * This function is for PythonAPI.
    */
-
+  //TODO move this function to PythonDStream
   def pyprint() = dstream.pyprint()
 
   /**
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/dstream/DStream.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/dstream/DStream.scala
index 13032fca15616..994a696a44f5b 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/dstream/DStream.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/dstream/DStream.scala
@@ -620,37 +620,36 @@ abstract class DStream[T: ClassTag] (
     new ForEachDStream(this, context.sparkContext.clean(foreachFunc)).register()
   }
 
-//TODO move pyprint to PythonDStream
+//TODO move pyprint to PythonDStream and executed by py4j call back function
   /**
    * Print the first ten elements of each PythonRDD generated in this PythonDStream. This is an output
    * operator, so this PythonDStream will be registered as an output stream and there materialized.
    * Since serialized Python object is readable by Python, pyprint writes out binary data to
    * temporary file and run python script to deserialized and print the first ten elements
+   *
+   * Currently call python script directly. We should avoid this
    */
   private[streaming] def pyprint() {
     def foreachFunc = (rdd: RDD[T], time: Time) => {
       val iter = rdd.take(11).iterator
 
-      // make a temporary file
+      // Generate a temporary file
       val prefix = "spark"
       val suffix = ".tmp"
       val tempFile = File.createTempFile(prefix, suffix)
       val tempFileStream = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(tempFile.getAbsolutePath))
-      //write out serialized python object
+      // Write out serialized python object to temporary file
       PythonRDD.writeIteratorToStream(iter, tempFileStream)
       tempFileStream.close()
 
-      // This value has to be passed from python
-      // Python currently does not do cluster deployment. But what happened
+      // pythonExec should be passed from python. Move pyprint to PythonDStream
       val pythonExec = new ProcessBuilder().environment().get("PYSPARK_PYTHON")
       val sparkHome = new ProcessBuilder().environment().get("SPARK_HOME")
-      //val pb = new ProcessBuilder(Seq(pythonExec, sparkHome + "/python/pyspark/streaming/pyprint.py", tempFile.getAbsolutePath())) // why this fails to compile???
-      //absolute path to the python script is needed to change because we do not use pysparkstreaming
+      // Call python script to deserialize and print result in stdout
       val pb = new ProcessBuilder(pythonExec, sparkHome + "/python/pyspark/streaming/pyprint.py", tempFile.getAbsolutePath)
       val workerEnv = pb.environment()
 
-      //envVars also need to be pass
-      //workerEnv.putAll(envVars)
+      // envVars also should be pass from python
       val pythonPath = sparkHome + "/python/" + File.pathSeparator + workerEnv.get("PYTHONPATH")
       workerEnv.put("PYTHONPATH", pythonPath)
       val worker = pb.start()
@@ -662,7 +661,7 @@ abstract class DStream[T: ClassTag] (
       println ("Time: " + time)
       println ("-------------------------------------------")
 
-      //print value from python std out
+      // Print values which is from python std out
       var line = ""
       breakable {
         while (true) {
@@ -671,7 +670,7 @@ abstract class DStream[T: ClassTag] (
           println(line)
         }
       }
-      //delete temporary file
+      // Delete temporary file
       tempFile.delete()
       println()