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Is there a way to prevent databricks-connect from installing a global IPython Spark startup script?

jay-cunningham
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I'm currently using databricks-connect through VS Code on MacOS. However, this seems to install (and re-install upon deletion) an IPython startup script which initializes a SparkSession. This is fine as far as it goes, except that this script is *global* -- even when my current Python environment doesn't have databricks-connect installed it still tries to run the script before erroring out.

I mean no offense to Databricks, but this is kind of baffling to me? I don't understand why they would have done this in the first place. I don't *actually* want things besides builtins to be defined when I start up an IPython session, and triply so if it's just going to error out.

I don't suppose anyone knows a way to prevent this from happening?

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