The Mesos backend uses this property when setting up a slave process.  It is similarly set in the Scala repl (org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop), but I couldn't find any analogous for pyspark.

Author: Ivan Wick <ivanwick+github@gmail.com>

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Committer: Matei Zaharia <matei@databricks.com>

Closes #311 from ivanwick/master and squashes the following commits:

da0c3e4 [Ivan Wick] Set spark.executor.uri from environment variable (needed by Mesos)