- 1 year ago
Unable to read text files on Windows machine with Pyspark. (Analysis Exception) with a file:// prefix for my file name
If you are encountering an Analysis Exception while trying to read text files with Pyspark on a Windows machine, specifically with a file://
prefix for the file name, it may be related to the file path format.
When using Pyspark on Windows, the correct file path format uses backslashes (\
) instead of forward slashes (/
), and the file://
prefix should be omitted. Here's an example of how to read a text file in Pyspark on Windows:
pythonfrom pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder \
.appName("Text File Read") \
.getOrCreate()
# Provide the path to the text file without the 'file://' prefix
file_path = "C:\\path\\to\\your\\file.txt"
# Read the text file
df = spark.read.text(file_path)
# Perform further operations on the DataFrame
df.show()
In this example, make sure to replace "C:\\path\\to\\your\\file.txt"
with the actual file path on your Windows machine.
By using the correct file path format without the file://
prefix and ensuring that the backslashes are properly escaped, you should be able to read text files in Pyspark on a Windows machine without encountering the Analysis Exception.