ImportError: cannot import name 'HiveContext' from 'pyspark.sql'

Question

I am running pyspark in my PC (windows 10) but I can not import HiveContext:

from pyspark.sql import HiveContext
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ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-25-e3ae767de910> in <module>
----> 1 from pyspark.sql import HiveContext

ImportError: cannot import name 'HiveContext' from 'pyspark.sql' (C:\spark\spark-3.0.0-preview-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\sql\__init__.py)

How I should proceed to resolve it?

Answer 1

You’re using the preview release of Spark 3.0. According to the release notes, you should use SparkSession.builder.enableHiveSupport().

In Spark 3.0, the deprecated HiveContext class has been removed. Use SparkSession.builder.enableHiveSupport() instead.