pyspark.sql.DataFrameWriter.mode

DataFrameWriter.mode(saveMode: Optional[str]) → pyspark.sql.readwriter.DataFrameWriter

Specifies the behavior when data or table already exists.

Options include:

• append: Append contents of this DataFrame to existing data.

• overwrite: Overwrite existing data.

• error or errorifexists: Throw an exception if data already exists.

• ignore: Silently ignore this operation if data already exists.

Examples

>>> df.write.mode('append').parquet(os.path.join(tempfile.mkdtemp(), 'data'))

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