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Matei Zaharia commented on SPARK-1990: -------------------------------------- BTW here is the first error this gets: {code} Connection to ec2-54-186-88-202.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com closed. Traceback (most recent call last): File "spark_ec2.py", line 824, in <module> main() File "spark_ec2.py", line 816, in main real_main() File "spark_ec2.py", line 701, in real_main setup_cluster(conn, master_nodes, slave_nodes, opts, True) File "spark_ec2.py", line 430, in setup_cluster dot_ssh_tar = ssh_read(master, opts, ['tar', 'c', '.ssh']) File "spark_ec2.py", line 638, in ssh_read return subprocess.check_output( AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'check_output' {code} > spark-ec2 should only need Python 2.6, not 2.7 > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: SPARK-1990 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-1990 > Project: Spark > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Matei Zaharia > Labels: Starter > Fix For: 1.0.1, 1.1.0 > > > There were some posts on the lists that spark-ec2 does not work with Python > 2.6. In addition, we should check the Python version at the top of the script > and exit if it's too old. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)