unhex

Inverse of hex. Interprets each pair of characters as a hexadecimal number and converts to the byte representation of number. Supports Spark Connect.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see unhex function.

Syntax

Python
from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.unhex(col=<col>)

Parameter	Type	Description
`col`	`pyspark.sql.Column or column name`	target column to work on.

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

Python
from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([('414243',)], ['a'])
df.select('*', dbf.unhex('a')).show()

Output
+------+----------+
|     a|  unhex(a)|
+------+----------+
|414243|[41 42 43]|
+------+----------+