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Commit 224f1a75 authored by Matei Zaharia's avatar Matei Zaharia
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Update Python required version to 2.7, and mention MLlib support

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# Installing and Configuring PySpark
PySpark requires Python 2.6 or higher.
PySpark requires Python 2.7 or higher.
PySpark applications are executed using a standard CPython interpreter in order to support Python modules that use C extensions.
We have not tested PySpark with Python 3 or with alternative Python interpreters, such as [PyPy](http://pypy.org/) or [Jython](http://www.jython.org/).
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[API documentation](api/pyspark/index.html) for PySpark is available as Epydoc.
Many of the methods also contain [doctests](http://docs.python.org/2/library/doctest.html) that provide additional usage examples.
# Libraries
[MLlib](mllib-guide.html) is also available in PySpark. To use it, you'll need
[NumPy](http://www.numpy.org) version 1.7 or newer. The [MLlib guide](mllib-guide.html) contains
some example applications.
# Where to Go from Here
PySpark also includes several sample programs in the [`python/examples` folder](https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/tree/master/python/examples).
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