Pyspark Session giving file not found when initializing spark session

Question

I am trying to start a spark session and it keeps giving me a file not found error. I have searched online and found that I am basically using what everyone is saying, however I have not been able to find a solution.
I verified the spark to be the following: Name: pyspark Version: 3.0.1 Summary: Apache Spark Python API Home-page: https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/python Author: Spark Developers Author-email: [email protected] License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Location: c:\users\alexr\anaconda3\lib\site-packages Requires: py4j I use this code:

import pyspark
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("Prac").getOrCreate()

And I get the following error:

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FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-5ea8472534b6> in <module>
      2 from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
      3 
----> 4 spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("Prac").getOrCreate()

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pyspark\sql\session.py in getOrCreate(self)
    184                             sparkConf.set(key, value)
    185                         # This SparkContext may be an existing one.
--> 186                         sc = SparkContext.getOrCreate(sparkConf)
    187                     # Do not update `SparkConf` for existing `SparkContext`, as it's shared
    188                     # by all sessions.

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pyspark\context.py in getOrCreate(cls, conf)
    374         with SparkContext._lock:
    375             if SparkContext._active_spark_context is None:
--> 376                 SparkContext(conf=conf or SparkConf())
    377             return SparkContext._active_spark_context
    378 

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pyspark\context.py in __init__(self, master, appName, sparkHome, pyFiles, environment, batchSize, serializer, conf, gateway, jsc, profiler_cls)
    131                 " is not allowed as it is a security risk.")
    132 
--> 133         SparkContext._ensure_initialized(self, gateway=gateway, conf=conf)
    134         try:
    135             self._do_init(master, appName, sparkHome, pyFiles, environment, batchSize, serializer,

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pyspark\context.py in _ensure_initialized(cls, instance, gateway, conf)
    323         with SparkContext._lock:
    324             if not SparkContext._gateway:
--> 325                 SparkContext._gateway = gateway or launch_gateway(conf)
    326                 SparkContext._jvm = SparkContext._gateway.jvm
    327 

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pyspark\java_gateway.py in launch_gateway(conf, popen_kwargs)
     96             else:
     97                 # preexec_fn not supported on Windows
---> 98                 proc = Popen(command, **popen_kwargs)
     99 
    100             # Wait for the file to appear, or for the process to exit, whichever happens first.

~\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py in __init__(self, args, bufsize, executable, stdin, stdout, stderr, preexec_fn, close_fds, shell, cwd, env, universal_newlines, startupinfo, creationflags, restore_signals, start_new_session, pass_fds, encoding, errors, text)
    852                             encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
    853 
--> 854             self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
    855                                 pass_fds, cwd, env,
    856                                 startupinfo, creationflags, shell,

~\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py in _execute_child(self, args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, pass_fds, cwd, env, startupinfo, creationflags, shell, p2cread, p2cwrite, c2pread, c2pwrite, errread, errwrite, unused_restore_signals, unused_start_new_session)
   1305             # Start the process
   1306             try:
-> 1307                 hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
   1308                                          # no special security
   1309                                          None, None,

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

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