MartinIsti
Databricks Partner

I know it's a 2 years old thread but I needed to find a solution to this very thing today. I had one notebook using SparkContext

from pyspark import SparkFiles
from pyspark.sql.functions import *
sc.addFile(url)
 
But according to the runtime 14 release notes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/databricks/release-notes/runtime/14.0#breaking-changes sc will stop working. IOUtils hasn't been mentioned.
 
The current official way is:
 
I hope it helps.