Github user pwendell commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/30#issuecomment-36953290 Hey @sryza I tested this using a local standalone cluster and it didn't seem to work. The executors failed when they were asked to launch pyspark: ``` 14/03/06 15:50:56 INFO Executor: Running task ID 1 14/03/06 15:50:56 INFO Executor: Running task ID 2 /usr/bin/python: No module named pyspark 14/03/06 15:50:57 ERROR Executor: Exception in task ID 3 java.io.EOFException at java.io.DataInputStream.readInt(DataInputStream.java:392) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonWorkerFactory.startDaemon(PythonWorkerFactory.scala:177) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonWorkerFactory.createThroughDaemon(PythonWorkerFactory.scala:55) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonWorkerFactory.create(PythonWorkerFactory.scala:42) at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv.createPythonWorker(SparkEnv.scala:88) at org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD.compute(PythonRDD.scala:53) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:239) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:230) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:111) ``` Here is what I ran: ./bin/spark-class org.apache.spark.deploy.master.Master ./bin/spark-class org.apache.spark.deploy.worker.Worker <master url> MASTER=<master url> ./bin/pyspark >>> sc.parallelize(range(1000), 10).count
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