Data-Mining-With-Python/Part 4/Section_3.1_3.2.ipynb - xrange deprecated in Python3

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For the flip coin demo, use range instead:

heads = (sc.parallelize(range(n))
.map(lambda _: random.random())
.filter(lambda r: r <= 0.5)
.count())

Python 3 was released in 2008! Why is the code with this course in 2.x?!

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You might also need the following environment variables to get it working:
PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON=jupyter
PYSPARK_DRIVER_PYTHON_OPTS=notebook
PYSPARK_PYTHON=python