From 087eedca32fd87bfe1629588091bd307d45e4a7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diana Carroll Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:35:51 -0700 Subject: [Spark-1261] add instructions for running python examples to doc overview page Author: Diana Carroll Closes #162 from dianacarroll/SPARK-1261 and squashes the following commits: 14ac602 [Diana Carroll] typo in python example text 5121e3e [Diana Carroll] Add explanation of how to run Python examples to main doc overview page --- docs/index.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') 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 ` 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 ` 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 `. 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 `` parameter specifying the cluster URL -- cgit v1.2.3