unhex

Inverse of hex. Interprets each pair of characters as a hexadecimal number and converts to the byte representation of number. Supports Spark Connect.

For the corresponding Databricks SQL function, see unhex function.

Syntax

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf

dbf.unhex(col=<col>)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
col	pyspark.sql.Column or column name	target column to work on.

Returns

pyspark.sql.Column: string representation of given hexadecimal value.

Examples

from pyspark.sql import functions as dbf
df = spark.createDataFrame([('414243',)], ['a'])
df.select('*', dbf.unhex('a')).show()

+------+----------+
|     a|  unhex(a)|
+------+----------+
|414243|[41 42 43]|
+------+----------+