spylon-kernel 0.0.1

# spylon-kernel [](https://travis-ci.org/mariusvniekerk/spylon-kernel) [](https://codecov.io/gh/mariusvniekerk/spylon-kernel)

This is an extremely early proof of concept for using the metakernel in combination with py4j to make a simpler kernel for scala.

## Installation

On python 3.5+

`bash pip install . `

## Installing the jupyter kernel

To install the jupyter kernel install it using

` python -m spylon_kernel install `

## Using the kernel

The scala spark metakernl prodived a scala kernel by default. At the first scala cell that is run a spark session will be constructed so that a user can interact with the interpreter.

## Customizing the spark context

The launch arguments can be customized using the %%init_spark magic as follows

`python %%init_spark launcher.jars = ["file://some/jar.jar"] launcher.master = "local[4]" launcher.conf.spark.executor.cores = 8 `

## Other languages

Since this makes use of metakernel you can evaluate normal python code using the %%python magic. In addition once the spark context has been created the spark variable will be added to your python ernvironment.

`python %%python df = spark.read.json("examples/src/main/resources/people.json") `

To get completions for python, make sure that you have installed jedi