pyspark.sql.functions.trunc

pyspark.sql.functions.trunc(date, format)[source]

Returns date truncated to the unit specified by the format.

New in version 1.5.0.

Parameters
dateColumn or str
formatstr

‘year’, ‘yyyy’, ‘yy’ to truncate by year, or ‘month’, ‘mon’, ‘mm’ to truncate by month Other options are: ‘week’, ‘quarter’

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('1997-02-28',)], ['d'])
>>> df.select(trunc(df.d, 'year').alias('year')).collect()
[Row(year=datetime.date(1997, 1, 1))]
>>> df.select(trunc(df.d, 'mon').alias('month')).collect()
[Row(month=datetime.date(1997, 2, 1))]