char

Returns the ASCII character having the binary equivalent to col. If col is larger than 256 the result is equivalent to char(col % 256).

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see char function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.char(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Input column or strings

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
spark.range(1).select(dbf.char(dbf.lit(65))).show()

+--------+
|char(65)|
+--------+
|       A|
+--------+