take

Returns the first num rows as a list of Row.

Syntax

take(num: int)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
num	int	Number of records to return. Will return this number of records or all records if the DataFrame contains less than this number of records.

Returns

list: List of rows.

Examples

df = spark.createDataFrame(
    [(14, "Tom"), (23, "Alice"), (16, "Bob")], ["age", "name"])

df.take(2)
# [Row(age=14, name='Tom'), Row(age=23, name='Alice')]