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Pandas finds parquet file, Spark does not

JonW
New Contributor

I am having an issue with Databricks (Community Edition) where I can use Pandas to read a parquet file into a dataframe, but when I use Spark it states the file doesn't exist. I have tried reformatting the file path for spark but I can't seem to find a format that it will accept.

Any ideas?

Pandas:

 

 

parquet_file_path = "/dbfs/green_tripdata_2022-02.parquet"
df = pd.read_parquet(parquet_file_path, engine='pyarrow')
display(df)

 

 

Result:

JonW_1-1703880035484.png

Spark:

 

parquet_file_path = "/dbfs/green_tripdata_2022-02.parquet"
df = spark.read.parquet(parquet_file_path)
df.show()

 

2 REPLIES 2

Wojciech_BUK
Valued Contributor III

Can you check those 3 options ? I don't remember which one will work and can't test it now, but I am sore one or two of those will work 🙂

parquet_file_path = "/green_tripdata_2022-02.parquet"

parquet_file_path = "green_tripdata_2022-02.parquet"

parquet_file_path = "dbfs:/green_tripdata_2022-02.parquet"

 

jose_gonzalez
Moderator
Moderator

Are you getting any error messages? what happens when you do a "ls /dbfs/"? are you able to list all the parquet files?

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