pyspark.sql.functions.decode¶
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pyspark.sql.functions.decode(col: ColumnOrName, charset: str) → pyspark.sql.column.Column[source]¶ Computes the first argument into a string from a binary using the provided character set (one of ‘US-ASCII’, ‘ISO-8859-1’, ‘UTF-8’, ‘UTF-16BE’, ‘UTF-16LE’, ‘UTF-16’).
New in version 1.5.0.
Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.
- Parameters
 - col
Columnor str target column to work on.
- charsetstr
 charset to use to decode to.
- col
 - Returns
 Columnthe column for computed results.
Examples
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('abcd',)], ['a']) >>> df.select(decode("a", "UTF-8")).show() +----------------+ |decode(a, UTF-8)| +----------------+ | abcd| +----------------+