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diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index c4f4d79edb..23311101e1 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -23,10 +23,12 @@ For its Scala API, Spark {{site.SPARK_VERSION}} depends on Scala {{site.SCALA_BI # Running the Examples and Shell -Spark comes with several sample programs in the `examples` directory. -To run one of the samples, use `./bin/run-example <class> <params>` in the top-level Spark directory +Spark comes with several sample programs. Scala and Java examples are in the `examples` directory, and Python examples are in `python/examples`. +To run one of the Java or Scala sample programs, use `./bin/run-example <class> <params>` in the top-level Spark directory (the `bin/run-example` script sets up the appropriate paths and launches that program). For example, try `./bin/run-example org.apache.spark.examples.SparkPi local`. +To run a Python sample program, use `./bin/pyspark <sample-program> <params>`. For example, try `./bin/pyspark ./python/examples/pi.py local`. + Each example prints usage help when run with no parameters. Note that all of the sample programs take a `<master>` parameter specifying the cluster URL |