Can PySpark work without Spark?

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As of v2.2, executing pip install pyspark will install Spark.

If you’re going to use Pyspark it’s clearly the simplest way to get started.

On my system Spark is installed inside my virtual environment (miniconda) at lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyspark/jars

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