Error starting pyspark with options (Without Spack packages)

Question

can anyone tell me why I'm getting the errors below ? According to the README for the pyspark-cassandra connector, what I am trying below should work (without Spark packages): https://github.com/TargetHolding/pyspark-cassandra

$ pyspark_jar="$HOME/devel/sandbox/Learning/Spark/pyspark-cassandra/target/scala-2.10/pyspark-cassandra-assembly-0.2.2.jar"

$ pyspark_egg="$HOME/devel/sandbox/Learning/Spark/pyspark-cassandra/target/pyspark_cassandra-0.2.2-py2.7.egg"
$ pyspark --jars $pyspark_jar --py_files $pyspark_egg --conf spark.cassandra.connection.host=localhost 

This results in:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: pyspark does not support any application options.
at org.apache.spark.launcher.CommandBuilderUtils.checkArgument(CommandBuilderUtils.java:222)
at org.apache.spark.launcher.SparkSubmitCommandBuilder.buildPySparkShellCommand(SparkSubmitCommandBuilder.java:239)
at org.apache.spark.launcher.SparkSubmitCommandBuilder.buildCommand(SparkSubmitCommandBuilder.java:113)
at org.apache.spark.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:74)

Answer 1

Figured out the problem. I needed to use

--py-files 

instead of

--py_files