Trying to get Jupyter notebook to work with PySpark - pyspark

Question

I am fairly new to this but I have followed numerous setup instructions and installed Anaconda to use the Jupyter notebook with PySpark. I've installed Python, PySpark, Winutils, set environment variables but still cannot get PySpark to work.
Everyone seems to have their own flavor of configurations.
When running this code:
import findspark
findspark.init()
import pyspark # only run after findspark.init()
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
df = spark.sql('''select 'spark' as hello ''')
df.show()
...I get numerous errors ending with "TypeError: an integer is required (got type bytes)"
When I simply run:
import findspark
findspark.init()
...nothing happens at all.
I am trying to setup a local Jupyter notebook environment to test code for use in AWS Glue.
Adding type errors:
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-84edcc0ab449> in <module>
2 findspark.init()
3
----> 4 import pyspark # only run after findspark.init()
5 from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
6 spark = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
C:\spark-2.4.8-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\__init__.py in <module>
49
50 from pyspark.conf import SparkConf
---> 51 from pyspark.context import SparkContext
52 from pyspark.rdd import RDD, RDDBarrier
53 from pyspark.files import SparkFiles
C:\spark-2.4.8-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\context.py in <module>
29 from py4j.protocol import Py4JError
30
---> 31 from pyspark import accumulators
32 from pyspark.accumulators import Accumulator
33 from pyspark.broadcast import Broadcast, BroadcastPickleRegistry
C:\spark-2.4.8-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\accumulators.py in <module>
95 import socketserver as SocketServer
96 import threading
---> 97 from pyspark.serializers import read_int, PickleSerializer
98
99
C:\spark-2.4.8-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\serializers.py in <module>
70 xrange = range
71
---> 72 from pyspark import cloudpickle
73 from pyspark.util import _exception_message
74
C:\spark-2.4.8-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\cloudpickle.py in <module>
143
144
--> 145 _cell_set_template_code = _make_cell_set_template_code()
146
147
C:\spark-2.4.8-bin-hadoop2.7\python\pyspark\cloudpickle.py in _make_cell_set_template_code()
124 )
125 else:
--> 126 return types.CodeType(
127 co.co_argcount,
128 co.co_kwonlyargcount,
TypeError: an integer is required (got type bytes)