Add SparkConf support in Python
Fix some other Python tests due to initializing JVM in a different way

The test in context.py created two different instances of the
SparkContext class by copying "globals", so that some tests can have a
global "sc" object and others can try initializing their own contexts.
This led to two JVM gateways being created since SparkConf also looked
at pyspark.context.SparkContext to get the JVM.
Add Python docs about SparkConf