Why can’t PySpark find py4j.java_gateway?
In my environment (using docker and the image sequenceiq/spark:1.1.0-ubuntu), I ran in to this. If you look at the pyspark shell script, you’ll see that you need a few things added to your PYTHONPATH: export PYTHONPATH=$SPARK_HOME/python/:$PYTHONPATH export PYTHONPATH=$SPARK_HOME/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip:$PYTHONPATH That worked in ipython for me. Update: as noted in the comments, the name of the py4j … Read more