collation

Returns the collation name of a given column.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see collation function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.collation(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Target string column to work on.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: collation name of a given expression.

Examples

df = spark.createDataFrame([('name',)], ['dt'])
df.select(collation('dt').alias('collation')).show(truncate=False)