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decode

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', 'UTF-32').

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see decode (key) function.

Syntax​

Python
from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.decode(col=<col>, charset=<charset>)

Parameters​

Parameter

Type

Description

col

pyspark.sql.Column or str

target column to work on.

charset

literal string

charset to use to decode to.

Parameter

Type

Description

col

pyspark.sql.Column or str

target column to work on.

charset

literal string

charset to use to decode to.

Returns​

pyspark.sql.Column: the column for computed results.

Examples​

Python
from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([(b"\x61\x62\x63\x64",)], ["a"])
df.select("*", dbf.decode("a", "UTF-8")).show()