jupyter notebook NameError: name 'sc' is n

Question

I used the jupyter notebook, pyspark, then, my first command was:

rdd = sc.parallelize([2, 3, 4])

Then, it showed that

NameError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-c540c4a1d203> in <module>()
----> 1 rdd = sc.parallelize([2, 3, 4])

NameError: name 'sc' is not defined.

How to fix this error 'sc' is not defined.

Answer 1

Have you initialized the SparkContext?

You could try this:

#Initializing PySpark
from pyspark import SparkContext, SparkConf

# #Spark Config
conf = SparkConf().setAppName("sample_app")
sc = SparkContext(conf=conf)