exists

Returns whether a predicate holds for one or more elements in the array. Supports Spark Connect.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see exists function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.exists(col=<col>, f=<f>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or str	Name of column or expression.
f	function	A function that returns the Boolean expression.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: True if "any" element of an array evaluates to True when passed as an argument to given function and False otherwise.

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([(1, [1, 2, 3, 4]), (2, [3, -1, 0])],("key", "values"))
df.select(dbf.exists("values", lambda x: x < 0).alias("any_negative")).show()

+------------+
|any_negative|
+------------+
|       false|
|        true|
+------------+