PySpark Project Creation

1. Create Project directory

2. Copy launch_spark_submit script here ( Required if notebook also running on same spark )

   #!/bin/bash unset PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON spark-submit $* export PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON=jupyter

3. Now create entry program entry.py with 'main'

4. create another dir 'additionalCode'

5. cd additionalCode

6. Create setup.py from setuptools import setup

   setup( name='PySparkUtilities', version='0.1dev', packages=['utilities'], license=''' Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license''', long_description=''' An example of how to package code for PySpark''' )

7. mkdir utilities

8. Copy modules inside it

9. In additionalCode execute - python setup.py bdist_egg

10. This will create dist dir.

11. dist will contain egg file

12. To run ./launch_spark_submit.sh --master local[4] --py-files additionalCode/dist/PySparkUtilities-0.2.dev0-py2.7.egg entry.py