I just discovered that putting myLib in /usr/local/python2-7/dist-packages/ on the worker-nodes will let me import the module in a pyspark-script...
That is a solution but it would be nice if modules in PYTHONPATH were included as well. On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Anders Bennehag <and...@tajitsu.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am running spark 0.9.0 standalone on a cluster. The documentation > http://spark.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/python-programming-guide.htmlstates > that code-dependencies can be deployed through the pyFiles argument > to the SparkContext. > > But in my case, the relevant code, lets call it myLib is already available > in PYTHONPATH on the worker-nodes. However, when trying to access this code > through a regular 'import myLib' in the script sent to pyspark, the > spark-workers seem to hang in the middle of the script without any specific > errors. > > If I start a regular python-shell on the workers, there is no problem > importing myLib and accessing it. > > Why is this? > > /Anders > >
