How do I run graphx with Python / pyspark?

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You should look at GraphFrames (https://github.com/graphframes/graphframes), which wraps GraphX algorithms under the DataFrames API and it provides Python interface.

Here is a quick example from https://graphframes.github.io/graphframes/docs/_site/quick-start.html, with slight modification so that it works

first start pyspark with the graphframes pkg loaded

pyspark --packages graphframes:graphframes:0.1.0-spark1.6

python code:

from graphframes import *

# Create a Vertex DataFrame with unique ID column "id"
v = sqlContext.createDataFrame([
  ("a", "Alice", 34),
  ("b", "Bob", 36),
  ("c", "Charlie", 30),
], ["id", "name", "age"])

# Create an Edge DataFrame with "src" and "dst" columns
e = sqlContext.createDataFrame([
  ("a", "b", "friend"),
  ("b", "c", "follow"),
  ("c", "b", "follow"),
], ["src", "dst", "relationship"])
# Create a GraphFrame
g = GraphFrame(v, e)

# Query: Get in-degree of each vertex.
g.inDegrees.show()

# Query: Count the number of "follow" connections in the graph.
g.edges.filter("relationship = 'follow'").count()

# Run PageRank algorithm, and show results.
results = g.pageRank(resetProbability=0.01, maxIter=20)
results.vertices.select("id", "pagerank").show()

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