Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. It was developed by Guido van Rossum, and since its inception, its popularity has increased exponentially. A plethora of handy and high-performance packages for numerical and statistical calculations make Python popular among data scientists. Python is an indented language, which may bother programmers just learning Python. But indented code improves code readability, and the popularity of Python and its ease of use makes it good for programming Spark.
This chapter introduces the basics of Python programming. ...
