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tanh

Computes hyperbolic tangent of the input column. Supports Spark Connect.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see tanh function.

Syntax​

Python
from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.tanh(col=<col>)

Parameters​

Parameter

Type

Description

col

pyspark.sql.Column or column name

hyperbolic angle

Parameter

Type

Description

col

pyspark.sql.Column or column name

hyperbolic angle

Returns​

pyspark.sql.Column: hyperbolic tangent of the given value as if computed by java.lang.Math.tanh()

Examples​

Python
from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([(-1,), (0,), (1,)], ["value"])
df.select("*", dbf.tanh(df.value)).show()
Output
+-----+-------------------+
|value| TANH(value)|
+-----+-------------------+
| -1|-0.7615941559557...|
| 0| 0.0|
| 1| 0.7615941559557...|
+-----+-------------------+

Python
from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
spark.sql(
"SELECT * FROM VALUES (FLOAT('NAN')), (NULL) AS TAB(value)"
).select("*", dbf.tanh("value")).show()
Output
+-----+-----------+
|value|TANH(value)|
+-----+-----------+
| NaN| NaN|
| NULL| NULL|
+-----+-----------+