pyspark.sql.functions.typeof

pyspark.sql.functions.typeof(col: ColumnOrName) → pyspark.sql.column.Column

Return DDL-formatted type string for the data type of the input.

New in version 3.5.0.

Parameters

colColumn or str

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([(1,)], ["a"])
>>> df.select(typeof(df.a).alias('r')).collect()
[Row(r='bigint')]

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