diff --git a/bin/interpreter.sh b/bin/interpreter.sh
index cc35182fb1..ff4b75b66e 100755
--- a/bin/interpreter.sh
+++ b/bin/interpreter.sh
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ if [[ "${INTERPRETER_ID}" == "spark" ]]; then
     SPARK_APP_JAR="$(ls ${ZEPPELIN_HOME}/interpreter/spark/zeppelin-spark*.jar)"
     # This will evantually passes SPARK_APP_JAR to classpath of SparkIMain
     ZEPPELIN_CLASSPATH=${SPARK_APP_JAR}
+
+    export PYTHONPATH="$SPARK_HOME/python/:$PYTHONPATH"
+    export PYTHONPATH="$SPARK_HOME/python/lib/py4j-0.8.2.1-src.zip:$PYTHONPATH"    
   else
     # add Hadoop jars into classpath
     if [[ -n "${HADOOP_HOME}" ]]; then