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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+"""
+Gradient Boosted Trees Classification Example.
+"""
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import sys
+
+from pyspark import SparkContext
+# $example on$
+from pyspark.mllib.tree import GradientBoostedTrees, GradientBoostedTreesModel
+from pyspark.mllib.util import MLUtils
+# $example off$
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sc = SparkContext(appName="PythonGradientBoostedTreesClassificationExample")
+    # $example on$
+    # Load and parse the data file.
+    data = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc, "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt")
+    # Split the data into training and test sets (30% held out for testing)
+    (trainingData, testData) = data.randomSplit([0.7, 0.3])
+
+    # Train a GradientBoostedTrees model.
+    #  Notes: (a) Empty categoricalFeaturesInfo indicates all features are continuous.
+    #         (b) Use more iterations in practice.
+    model = GradientBoostedTrees.trainClassifier(trainingData,
+                                                 categoricalFeaturesInfo={}, numIterations=3)
+
+    # Evaluate model on test instances and compute test error
+    predictions = model.predict(testData.map(lambda x: x.features))
+    labelsAndPredictions = testData.map(lambda lp: lp.label).zip(predictions)
+    testErr = labelsAndPredictions.filter(lambda (v, p): v != p).count() / float(testData.count())
+    print('Test Error = ' + str(testErr))
+    print('Learned classification GBT model:')
+    print(model.toDebugString())
+
+    # Save and load model
+    model.save(sc, "target/tmp/myGradientBoostingClassificationModel")
+    sameModel = GradientBoostedTreesModel.load(sc,
+                                               "target/tmp/myGradientBoostingClassificationModel")
+    # $example off$