Github user dianacarroll commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1246#issuecomment-47537578
Why did you change the doc to recommend setting sc.master programmatically?
AFAIK we are actively discouraging that, now that it can be set in the
spark-submit script.
I disagree that this is a doc bug. If SparkContext(sparkConf) works in
Scala, it should also work in Python.
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