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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.
+"""
+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
+
+
+__all__ = ["SparkContext", "RDD"]