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Use magic commands - Amazon Athena

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.

  • To see a list of magic commands in Athena, run the command %lsmagic in a notebook cell.

  • For information about using magics to create graphs in Athena notebooks, see Use magics to create data graphs.

  • 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.

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