diff --git a/docs/submitting-applications.md b/docs/submitting-applications.md
index 3ecbf2308cd44..46204634a74d4 100644
--- a/docs/submitting-applications.md
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@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ For Python, you can use the `--py-files` argument of `spark-submit` to add `.py`
 files to be distributed with your application. If you depend on multiple Python files we recommend
 packaging them into a `.zip` or `.egg`.
 
+As Python can not read files from assembly jar which package by JDK1.7+, so packaging pyspark into a
+`.zip`(the name contains "spark-pyspark") and use `--py-files` argument of `spark-submit` to distribute it.
+
 # Launching Applications with spark-submit
 
 Once a user application is bundled, it can be launched using the `bin/spark-submit` script.