Can't instantiate Spark Context in iPython
问题 I'm trying to set up a stand alone instance of spark locally on a mac and use the Python 3 API. To do this I've done the following, 1. I've downloaded and installed Scala and Spark. 2. I've set up the following environment variables, #Scala export SCALA_HOME=$HOME/scala/scala-2.12.4 export PATH=$PATH:$SCALA_HOME/bin #Spark export SPARK_HOME=$HOME/spark/spark-2.2.1-bin-hadoop2.7 export PATH=$PATH:$SPARK_HOME/bin #Jupyter Python export PYSPARK_PYTHON=python3 export PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON