'SparkContext' object has no attribute 'textfile'

Question

I tried loading a file by using following code:

textdata = sc.textfile('hdfs://localhost:9000/file.txt')

Error message:

AttributeError: 'SparkContext' object has no attribute 'textfile'

Answer 1

It is sc.textFile(...) with a capital F.

You can inspect the API of SparkContext here.