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.sql import functions as dbf
dbf.encode(col=<col>, charset=<charset>)
Parameters
Parameter | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
|
| target column to work on. |
|
| charset to use to encode. |
Returns
pyspark.sql.Column: the column for computed results.
Examples
Python
from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([("abcd",)], ["c"])
df.select("*", dbf.encode("c", "UTF-8")).show()