@Aravind A , What are the dependencies and versions you installed?
Install pyspark + openjdk
%pip install pyspark==2.4.8
!apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk-headless -qq > /dev/null
Build spark session
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder\
.appName("Practice”)\
.getOrCreate()
Note that:
Spark runs on Java 8/11, Scala 2.12/2.13, Python 3.6+ and R 3.5+.
Python 3.6 support is deprecated as of Spark 3.2.0.
Java 8 prior to version 8u201 support is deprecated as of Spark 3.2.0.
For the Scala API, Spark 3.2.1 uses Scala 2.12. You will need to use a compatible Scala version (2.12.x).
https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/