apache/incubator-spark — pull request #97 by ewencp (2013-10-22 07:24:39+00:00)
Title: Add classmethod to SparkContext to set system properties.

Add a new classmethod to SparkContext to set system properties like is
possible in Scala/Java. Unlike the Java/Scala implementations, there's
no access to System until the JVM bridge is created. Since
SparkContext handles that, move the initialization of the JVM
connection to a separate classmethod that can safely be called
repeatedly as long as the same instance (or no instance) is provided.