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# Jupyter Notebook Setup

In this guide you will see how to setup jupyter notebook as a default editor for PySpark

After completing the Spark installation in order to set jupyter notebook as the default editor we need to the following steps:

### Step 1 (install jupyter notebook)

Open CMD and use the following command to install jupyter notebook

```bash
pip install jupyter
```

### Step 2 (set environment variables)

create the following environment variables:

**PYSPARK\_PYTHON** = {path of your python.exe}

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**PYSPARK\_DRIVER*****\_*****PYTHON** = jupyter

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**PYSPARK\_DRIVER\_PYTHON\_OPTS** = 'notebook'

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That's it!

*You can verify if your setup was successful by typing the following command on cmd*

```bash
pyspark
```

*This should open jupyter notebook in your default browser.*