limit

Limits the result count to the number specified.

Syntax

limit(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

DataFrame: Subset of the records.

Examples

df = spark.createDataFrame(
    [(14, "Tom"), (23, "Alice"), (16, "Bob")], ["age", "name"])
df.limit(1).show()
# +---+----+
# |age|name|
# +---+----+
# | 14| Tom|
# +---+----+
df.limit(0).show()
# +---+----+
# |age|name|
# +---+----+
# +---+----+