Use magic commands
Magic commands, or magics, are special commands that you can run in
a notebook cell. For example, %env shows the environment variables in a
notebook session. Athena supports the magic functions in IPython 6.0.3.
This section shows some key magic commands in Athena for Apache Spark.
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To see a list of magic commands in Athena, run the command
%lsmagicin a notebook cell. -
For information about using magics to create graphs in Athena notebooks, see Use magics to create data graphs.
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For information about additional magic commands, see Built-in magic commands
in the IPython documentation.
Note
Currently, the %pip command fails when executed. This is a known issue.
