What you’re getting back is an object which allows you to iterate over the results. You can turn the results of groupByKey into a list by calling list() on the values, e.g.
example = sc.parallelize([(0, u'D'), (0, u'D'), (1, u'E'), (2, u'F')])
example.groupByKey().collect()
# Gives [(0, <pyspark.resultiterable.ResultIterable object ......]
example.groupByKey().map(lambda x : (x[0], list(x[1]))).collect()
# Gives [(0, [u'D', u'D']), (1, [u'E']), (2, [u'F'])]