pyspark.sql.Column.cast¶
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Column.cast(dataType: Union[pyspark.sql.types.DataType, str]) → pyspark.sql.column.Column¶ Casts the column into type
dataType.Examples
>>> df.select(df.age.cast("string").alias('ages')).collect() [Row(ages='2'), Row(ages='5')] >>> df.select(df.age.cast(StringType()).alias('ages')).collect() [Row(ages='2'), Row(ages='5')]