try_mod

Returns the remainder after dividend/divisor. Its result is always null if divisor is 0. Supports Spark Connect.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see try_mod function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.try_mod(left=<left>, right=<right>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
left	pyspark.sql.Column or column name	dividend
right	pyspark.sql.Column or column name	divisor

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
spark.createDataFrame(
    [(6000, 15), (3, 2), (1234, 0)], ["a", "b"]
).select("*", dbf.try_mod("a", "b")).show()

+----+---+-------------+
|   a|  b|try_mod(a, b)|
+----+---+-------------+
|6000| 15|            0|
|   3|  2|            1|
|1234|  0|         NULL|
+----+---+-------------+

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
origin = spark.conf.get("spark.sql.ansi.enabled")
spark.conf.set("spark.sql.ansi.enabled", "true")
try:
    spark.range(1).select(dbf.try_mod("id", dbf.lit(0))).show()
finally:
    spark.conf.set("spark.sql.ansi.enabled", origin)

+--------------+
|try_mod(id, 0)|
+--------------+
|          NULL|
+--------------+