decode

Computes the first argument into a string from a binary using the provided character set (one of 'US-ASCII', 'ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16BE', 'UTF-16LE', 'UTF-16', 'UTF-32').

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see decode (key) function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.decode(col=<col>, charset=<charset>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	target column to work on.
charset	literal string	charset to use to decode to.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: the column for computed results.

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([(b"\x61\x62\x63\x64",)], ["a"])
df.select("*", dbf.decode("a", "UTF-8")).show()