diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 69bfda230a..4eed74f999 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -72,8 +72,7 @@ http_file(
     # From https://pypi.python.org/pypi/futures
     url = ("https://pypi.python.org/packages/a6/1c/" +
            "72a18c8c7502ee1b38a604a5c5243aa8c2a64f4bba4e6631b1b8972235dd/" +
-           "futures-3.1.1-py2-none-any.whl"),
-)
+           "futures-3.1.1-py2-none-any.whl"),)
 
 http_file(
     name = "futures_2_2_0_whl",
@@ -102,6 +101,15 @@ http_file(
            "google_cloud_language-0.29.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl"),
 )
 
+http_file(
+    name = "pyspark_tar",
+    sha256 = "8680dcbc98e95a32f89bea70e114e139eae3543c094f063d548863522bdc4370",
+    # From https://pypi.python.org/pypi/grpcio/1.6.0
+	url = ("https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/65/d7/" +
+		   "2a3b0de1178478fc00201b083d50b3d2d1affe4eac92dad3408219c5c607" + 
+		   "/pyspark-2.1.2.tar.gz"),
+)
+
 # Imports for examples
 pip_import(
     name = "examples_helloworld",
diff --git a/rules_python/BUILD b/rules_python/BUILD
index 6c23e01ae7..ec6aeddeb7 100644
--- a/rules_python/BUILD
+++ b/rules_python/BUILD
@@ -35,10 +35,13 @@ py_test(
         "@google_cloud_language_whl//file",
         "@grpc_whl//file",
         "@mock_whl//file",
+		"@pyspark_tar//file",
     ],
     deps = [
         ":whl",
         requirement("mock"),
+        requirement("pip"),
+        requirement("wheel"),
     ],
 )
 
diff --git a/rules_python/whl.py b/rules_python/whl.py
index 3e9d4f88fa..094377a4f4 100644
--- a/rules_python/whl.py
+++ b/rules_python/whl.py
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@
 import pkg_resources
 import re
 import zipfile
+from stat import S_IXUSR
 
+ZIP_UNIX_SYSTEM = 3
 
 class Wheel(object):
 
@@ -103,7 +105,15 @@ def extras(self):
 
   def expand(self, directory):
     with zipfile.ZipFile(self.path(), 'r') as whl:
-      whl.extractall(directory)
+      #FROM: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42326428/zipfile-in-python-file-permission
+        for info in whl.infolist():
+            extracted_path = whl.extract(info, directory)
+
+            if info.create_system == ZIP_UNIX_SYSTEM and os.path.isfile(extracted_path):
+                unix_attributes = info.external_attr >> 16
+                if unix_attributes & S_IXUSR:
+                    os.chmod(extracted_path, os.stat(extracted_path).st_mode | S_IXUSR)
+
 
   # _parse_metadata parses METADATA files according to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0314/
   def _parse_metadata(self, content):
diff --git a/rules_python/whl_test.py b/rules_python/whl_test.py
index a63d625088..8a441546d1 100644
--- a/rules_python/whl_test.py
+++ b/rules_python/whl_test.py
@@ -14,9 +14,10 @@
 
 import os
 import unittest
+import pip
 
-from mock import patch
-
+from stat import *
+from mock import patch 
 from rules_python import whl
 
 
@@ -116,5 +117,20 @@ def test_google_cloud_language_whl_3_4(self, *args):
     self.assertEqual(set(wheel.dependencies()),
                      set(expected_deps))
 
+  @patch('platform.python_version', return_value='2.7.13')
+  def test_expand_executable(self, *args):
+      td = TestData('pyspark_tar/file/pyspark-2.1.2.tar.gz')
+      pip.main(["wheel", "-w", os.path.dirname(td), td])
+
+      td = TestData('pyspark_tar/file/' + 
+                    'pyspark-2.1.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl')
+      wheel = whl.Wheel(td)
+      wheel.expand(TestData('pyspark_tar/file/expand'))
+
+      attributes = os.stat(TestData('pyspark_tar/file/expand/pyspark/bin/spark-submit'))
+
+      print attributes
+      self.assertEqual(attributes[0] & S_IXUSR, S_IXUSR)
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   unittest.main()
diff --git a/tools/piptool.par b/tools/piptool.par
index 11ec453cd7..1c79768ec3 100755
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diff --git a/tools/whltool.par b/tools/whltool.par
index 7cb59c0fbe..aa316bf3ed 100755
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