selectExpr

Projects a set of SQL expressions and returns a new DataFrame.

Syntax

selectExpr(*expr: Union[str, List[str]])

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
expr	str or list of str	SQL expression strings to project.

Returns

DataFrame: A DataFrame with new/old columns transformed by expressions.

Examples

df = spark.createDataFrame([
    (2, "Alice"), (5, "Bob")], schema=["age", "name"])
df.selectExpr("age * 2", "abs(age)").show()
# +---------+--------+
# |(age * 2)|abs(age)|
# +---------+--------+
# |        4|       2|
# |       10|       5|
# +---------+--------+