%load_ext sparkmagic.magics doesn't work

[mariaclaudia]

Hi all

I've executed the following steps in order to use sparkmagic fron Jupyter notebook:

• create a new and clean environment

conda create -n spark python=3

• add kernel

  conda install -n spark ipykernel

• jupyter nbextension enable

  jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension

• activate environment

  source activate spark

• install sparkmagic

  pip install sparkmagic

• lunch jupyter notebook with the new 'sparl' kernel

• execute !pip show sparkmagic

Version: 0.12.5

Summary: SparkMagic: Spark execution via Livy

Home-page: https://github.com/jupyter-incubator/sparkmagic

Author: Jupyter Development Team

Author-email: jupyter@googlegroups.org

License: BSD 3-clause

Location: /Users/mary/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages

Requires: hdijupyterutils, requests, autovizwidget, ipywidgets, ipython, ipykernel, notebook, numpy, tornado, pandas, requests-kerberos, nose, mock

Required-by: 

• execute %load_ext sparkmagic.magics The following message is displayed (please see trace.txt attached):

JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 2 column 1 (char 2)

trace.txt

Thanks for the support

[mariaclaudia]

Attached conda-list output. thanks conda_list.txt

[kyrre]

@mariaclaudia I had a similiar error and using %debug I found the root-cause to be a typo in the ~/.sparkmagic/config.json file.