diff --git a/sbin/spark-executor b/sbin/spark-executor
index de5bfab563125689b7c5c5a2e1b9f9d68f4b4aa1..336549f29c9ce679142c2fd14dfa5e9ef2b5a963 100755
--- a/sbin/spark-executor
+++ b/sbin/spark-executor
@@ -19,5 +19,8 @@
 
 FWDIR="$(cd `dirname $0`/..; pwd)"
 
+export PYTHONPATH=$FWDIR/python:$PYTHONPATH
+export PYTHONPATH=$FWDIR/python/lib/py4j-0.8.1-src.zip:$PYTHONPATH
+
 echo "Running spark-executor with framework dir = $FWDIR"
 exec $FWDIR/bin/spark-class org.apache.spark.executor.MesosExecutorBackend