Python Dependency Zip creation

gistfile1.txt

# Install pip and virtualend if not already installed
$>sudo easy_install pip
$>sudo pip install virtualen
$>sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

Add to .bash/profile:

    # set where virutal environments will live
    export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
    # ensure all new environments are isolated from the site-packages directory
    export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_VIRTUALENV_ARGS='--no-site-packages'
    # use the same directory for virtualenvs as virtualenvwrapper
    export PIP_VIRTUALENV_BASE=$WORKON_HOME
    # makes pip detect an active virtualenv and install to it
    export PIP_RESPECT_VIRTUALENV=true
    if [[ -r /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh ]]; then
        source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
    else
        echo "WARNING: Can't find virtualenvwrapper.sh"
    fi

$>mkvirtualenv testenv
(testenv)$>pip install requests
(testenv)$>pip freeze > requirements.txt
(testenv)$>deactivate testenv
(testenv)$>workon testenv

$>zip -r ~/deps.zip ~/.virtualenvs/testenv/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
$>pyspark --py-files deps.zip file.py