pyspark addPyFile to add zip of .py files, but module still not found

Fixed problem. Admittedly, solution is not totally spark-related, but leaving question posted for the sake of others who may have similar problem, since the given error message did not make my mistake totally clear from the start.

TLDR: Make sure the package contents (so they should include an __init.py__ in each dir.) of the zip file being loaded in are structured and named the way your code expects.

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The package I was trying to load into the spark context via zip was of the form

mypkg
    file1.py
    file2.py
    subpkg1
        file11.py
    subpkg2
        file21.py

my zip when running less mypkg.zip, showed

file1.py file2.py subpkg1 subpkg2

So two things were wrong here.

1. Was not zipping the toplevel dir. that was the main package that the coded was expecting to work with
2. Was not zipping the lower level dirs.

Solved with zip -r mypkg.zip mypkg

More specifically, had to make 2 zip files

1. for the dist-keras package:

   cd dist-keras; zip -r distkeras.zip distkeras

see https://github.com/cerndb/dist-keras/tree/master/distkeras

2. for the keras package used by distkeras (which is not installed across the cluster):

   cd keras; zip -r keras.zip keras

see https://github.com/keras-team/keras/tree/master/keras

So declaring the spark session looked like

conf = SparkConf()
conf.set("spark.app.name", application_name)
conf.set("spark.master", master)  #master='yarn-client'
conf.set("spark.executor.cores", `num_cores`)
conf.set("spark.executor.instances", `num_executors`)
conf.set("spark.locality.wait", "0")
conf.set("spark.serializer", "org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer");

# Check if the user is running Spark 2.0 +
if using_spark_2:
    from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

    sc = SparkSession.builder.config(conf=conf) \
            .appName(application_name) \
            .getOrCreate()
    sc.sparkContext.addPyFile("/home/me/projects/keras-projects/exploring-keras/keras-dist_test/dist-keras/distkeras.zip")
    sc.sparkContext.addPyFile("/home/me/projects/keras-projects/exploring-keras/keras-dist_test/keras/keras.zip")
    print sc.version

if your module is as below

myModule \n
- init.py
-spark1.py
-spark2.py

Don't go inside myModule folder and add to zip. This error you mentioned.

Instead, go outside the myModule folder. right-click and add myModule folder to zip and give another name.

The idea is when spark extract your zip, there should be myModule folder exist with same name and hyrarchy