https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Multiple-versions-of-python-on-spark-client/m-p/207285#M169246 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/14401/geraldbidault.html" nodeid="14401">@Gerald BIDAULT</A> </P><P>Is it feasible to install python2.7 on your centos6 cluster ?</P><P>If you can install python2.7, then modify spark-env.sh to use python2.7 by changing below properties :</P><PRE>export PYSPARK_PYTHON=&lt;path to python 2.7&gt; export PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON=python2.7 </PRE><P>Steps for changing spark-env.sh :</P><P>1) Login to ambari</P><P>2) Navigate to spark service</P><P>3) Under 'Advanced spark2-env' modify 'content' to add properties as described above.</P><P>Attaching screenshot.<A href="https://community.cloudera.com/legacyfs/online/attachments/59414-spark-changes.png">spark-changes.png</A></P> Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:44:34 GMT ssharma 2018-01-31T17:44:34Z