NameError: name 'dbutils' is not defined in pyspark

Question

I am running a pyspark job in databricks cloud. I need to write some of the csv files to databricks filesystem (dbfs) as part of this job and also i need to use some of the

Answer 1

To access the DBUtils module in a way that works both locally and in Azure Databricks clusters, on Python, use the following get_dbutils():

def get_dbutils(spark):
  try:
    from pyspark.dbutils import DBUtils
    dbutils = DBUtils(spark)
  except ImportError:
    import IPython
    dbutils = IPython.get_ipython().user_ns["dbutils"]
  return dbutils

See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/dev-tools/databricks-connect

Answer 2

Try to use this:

def get_dbutils(spark):
        try:
            from pyspark.dbutils import DBUtils
            dbutils = DBUtils(spark)
        except ImportError:
            import IPython
            dbutils = IPython.get_ipython().user_ns["dbutils"]
        return dbutils

dbutils = get_dbutils(spark)

Answer 3

yes! You could use this:

pip install DBUtils
import DBUtils