How to create multiple SparkContexts in a console

Question

I want to create more than one SparkContext in a console. According to a post in mailing list, I need to do SparkConf.set( \'spark.driver.allowMultipleContexts\' , true), it

Answer 1

My way:

from pyspark import SparkContext
try:
    sc.stop()
except:
    pass
sc=SparkContext('local','pyspark')
'''
your code
'''
sc.stop()