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hex

A pyspark.sql.types.BinaryType, pyspark.sql.types.IntegerType or pyspark.sql.types.LongType. Supports Spark Connect.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see hex function.

Syntax

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.hex(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

col

pyspark.sql.Column or column name

target column to work on.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: hexadecimal representation of given value as string.

Examples

Python
from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([('ABC', 3)], ['a', 'b'])
df.select('*', dbf.hex('a'), dbf.hex(df.b)).show()
Output
+---+---+------+------+
| a| b|hex(a)|hex(b)|
+---+---+------+------+
|ABC| 3|414243| 3|
+---+---+------+------+