randstr

Returns a string of the specified length whose characters are chosen uniformly at random from the following pool of characters: 0-9, a-z, A-Z. The random seed is optional. The string length must be a constant two-byte or four-byte integer (SMALLINT or INT, respectively).

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see randstr function.

Syntax

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.randstr(length=<length>, seed=<seed>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
length	pyspark.sql.Column or int	Number of characters in the string to generate.
seed	pyspark.sql.Column or int	Optional random number seed to use.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: The generated random string with the specified length.

Examples

from pyspark.databricks.sql import functions as dbf
spark.range(0, 10, 1, 1).select(dbf.randstr(16, 3)).show()