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+"""
+PySpark is a Python API for Spark.
+
+Public classes:
+
+    - L{SparkContext<pyspark.context.SparkContext>}
+        Main entry point for Spark functionality.
+    - L{RDD<pyspark.rdd.RDD>}
+        A Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD), the basic abstraction in Spark.
+    - L{Broadcast<pyspark.broadcast.Broadcast>}
+        A broadcast variable that gets reused across tasks.
+    - L{Accumulator<pyspark.accumulators.Accumulator>}
+        An "add-only" shared variable that tasks can only add values to.
+    - L{SparkFiles<pyspark.files.SparkFiles>}
+        Access files shipped with jobs.
+"""
+import sys
+import os
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.environ["SPARK_HOME"], "python/lib/py4j0.7.egg"))
+
+
+from pyspark.context import SparkContext
+from pyspark.rdd import RDD
+from pyspark.files import SparkFiles
+
+
+__all__ = ["SparkContext", "RDD", "SparkFiles"]