sc not defined

[mnarrell]

Installed on Ambari 2.0.1, HDP 2.2. HDFS/YARN/Tez/Zookeeper/Spark/Metrics

words = sc.textFile("file:///tmp/hello.txt")
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NameError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-3ddcf4589bfc> in <module>()
----> 1 words = sc.textFile("file:///tmp/hello.txt")

NameError: name 'sc' is not defined

[azimut]

same here, but for python it seems that you need to follow what they do the .ipynb on examples/ to define sc, that works for me

[Rosana-ManWithVision]

You have either not installed spark or you have not imported it before you began to code