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encode

Computes the first argument into a binary from a string 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 encode function.

Syntax​

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.encode(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 encode.

Returns​

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

Examples​

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([("abcd",)], ["c"])
df.select("*", dbf.encode("c", "UTF-8")).show()