Hello,

To start a SparkSession outside of a notebook, you can follow these steps to split your code into small Python modules and utilize Spark functionality:

1. Import Required Libraries: In your Python module, import the necessary libraries for Spark:

In your Python module, import the necessary libraries for Spark:

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

1. Create SparkSession:

Initialize the SparkSession at the beginning of your module:

spark = SparkSession.builder \
    .appName("YourAppName") \
    .config("spark.some.config.option", "config-value") \
    .getOrCreate()

Customize the configuration options as needed.