> but I think it doesn't work with the interpreter way Nicholas mentioned.

Oh oops sorry I forgot that I added that support as well.
Anyway it's still related to
https://lists.apache.org/thread/j382to15zgy8mr2pvrtcod9c02zj1org

On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 at 07:57, Hyukjin Kwon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Spark already supports `bin/pyspark --remote local` now but I think it
> doesn't work with the interpreter way Nicholas mentioned.
> This is probably related to
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/j382to15zgy8mr2pvrtcod9c02zj1org as well.
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 at 05:05, Tian Gao via dev <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes I think that's totally fine.
>>
>> I even support `.remote("local").getOrCreate()` as long as `"local"` has
>> no other ambiguity (is it used now? if not I'm fine to have this as a
>> special value). What I don't support is that we change the behavior for
>> something we are supporting now. For example,
>> .remote("sc://localhost:15002").getOrCreate() should not magically create
>> the server if there's no existing server.
>>
>> Tian
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 22, 2026 at 12:01 PM Nicholas Chammas <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> > On Jun 22, 2026, at 2:45 PM, Tian Gao <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > All I'm saying is that this is a tradeoff, it has benefits in some
>>> cases, but it's not a free lunch. I support having this as a feature when
>>> users know what they are doing, aka explicit consent. I'm against making
>>> this an implicit default to replace the existing behavior.
>>>
>>> OK, so are you in support of the weaker solution I outlined then? That
>>> is, we add a `spark connect` CLI with some accompanying user guide
>>> documentation, and make any existing Connect server discoverable by
>>> `.remote(“local”)`. The user still has to explicitly start up a persistent
>>> server.
>>>
>>> I think down the line we want to consider making this part of the
>>> default local workflow, but we can revisit that after this first step.
>>
>>

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