Access hdfs cluster from pydoop - python-3.x

Question

I have hdfs cluster and python on the same google cloud platform. I want to access the files present in the hdfs cluster from python. I found that using pydoop one can do that but I am struggling with giving it right parameters maybe. Below is the code that I have tried so far:-
import pydoop.hdfs as hdfs
import pydoop
pydoop.hdfs.hdfs(host='url of the file system goes here',
port=9864, user=None, groups=None)
"""
class pydoop.hdfs.hdfs(host='default', port=0, user=None, groups=None)
A handle to an HDFS instance.
Parameters
host (str) – hostname or IP address of the HDFS NameNode. Set to an empty string (and port to 0) to connect to the local file system; set to 'default' (and port to 0) to connect to the default (i.e., the one defined in the Hadoop configuration files) file system.
port (int) – the port on which the NameNode is listening
user (str) – the Hadoop domain user name. Defaults to the current UNIX user. Note that, in MapReduce applications, since tasks are spawned by the JobTracker, the default user will be the one that started the JobTracker itself.
groups (list) – ignored. Included for backwards compatibility.
"""
#print (hdfs.ls("/vs_co2_all_2019_v1.csv"))
It gives this error:-
RuntimeError: Hadoop config not found, try setting HADOOP_CONF_DIR
And if I execute this line of code:-
print (hdfs.ls("/vs_co2_all_2019_v1.csv"))
nothing happens. But this "vs_co2_all_2019_v1.csv" file does exist in the cluster but is not available at the moment, when I took screenshot.
My hdfs screenshot is shown below:
and the credentials that I have are shown below:
Can anybody tell me that what am I doing wrong? Which credentials do I need to put where in the pydoop api? Or maybe there is another simpler way around this problem, any help will be much appreciated!!

Answer 1

Have you tried the following?
import pydoop.hdfs as hdfs
import pydoop
hdfs_object = pydoop.hdfs.hdfs(host='url of the file system goes here',
port=9864, user=None, groups=None)
hdfs_object.list_directory("/vs_co2_all_2019_v1.csv")
or simply:
hdfs_object.list_directory("/")
Keep in mind that pydoop.hdfs module is not directly related with the hdfs class (hdfs_object). Thus, the connection that you established in the first command is not used in hdfs.ls("/vs_co2_all_2019_v1.csv")