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diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md index 48182a27d2..c9b10376cc 100644 --- a/docs/index.md +++ b/docs/index.md @@ -43,12 +43,15 @@ The `--master` option specifies the locally with one thread, or `local[N]` to run locally with N threads. You should start by using `local` for testing. For a full list of options, run Spark shell with the `--help` option. -Spark also provides a Python interface. To run an example Spark application written in Python, use -`bin/pyspark <program> [params]`. For example, +Spark also provides a Python interface. To run Spark interactively in a Python interpreter, use +`bin/pyspark`. As in Spark shell, you can also pass in the `--master` option to configure your +master URL. - ./bin/pyspark examples/src/main/python/pi.py local[2] 10 + ./bin/pyspark --master local[2] -or simply `bin/pyspark` without any arguments to run Spark interactively in a python interpreter. +Example applications are also provided in Python. For example, + + ./bin/spark-submit examples/src/main/python/pi.py 10 # Launching on a Cluster |