pyspark.SparkContext.getOrCreate¶

classmethod SparkContext.getOrCreate(conf: Optional[pyspark.conf.SparkConf] = None) → pyspark.context.SparkContext[source]¶

Get or instantiate a SparkContext and register it as a singleton object.

New in version 1.4.0.

Parameters

confSparkConf, optional: SparkConf that will be used for initialization of the SparkContext.

Returns

SparkContext: current SparkContext, or a new one if it wasn’t created before the function call.

Examples

>>> SparkContext.getOrCreate()
<SparkContext ...>