Github user andrewor14 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/9122#discussion_r42277272 --- Diff: python/pyspark/context.py --- @@ -280,6 +280,18 @@ def __exit__(self, type, value, trace): """ self.stop() + @classmethod + def getOrCreate(cls, conf=None): + """ + Get or instantiate a SparkContext and register it as a singleton object. + + :param conf: SparkConf (optional) + """ + if SparkContext._active_spark_context is None: --- End diff -- don't you need to hold `SparkContext._lock` when you check for this?
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