run pyspark in standalone module without bin/pyspark

init_pyspark.py

import os
import sys

# Set the path for spark installation
# this is the path where you have built spark using sbt/sbt assembly
os.environ['SPARK_HOME'] = "/Users/vvlad/spark/spark-1.0.2"

# Append to PYTHONPATH so that pyspark could be found
sys.path.append("/Users/vvlad/spark/spark-1.0.2/python")
sys.path.append("/Users/vvlad/spark/spark-1.0.2/python/lib/py4j-0.8.1-src.zip")

# Now we are ready to import Spark Modules
try:
    from pyspark import SparkContext
    from pyspark import SparkConf

except ImportError as e:
    raise
    print ("Error importing Spark Modules", e)
    sys.exit(1)