pyspark.sql.functions.desc

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

Returns a sort expression based on the descending order of the given column name.

New in version 1.3.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

colColumn or str

target column to sort by in the descending order.

Returns

Column

the column specifying the order.

Examples

Sort by the column ‘id’ in the descending order.

>>> spark.range(5).orderBy(desc("id")).show()
+---+
| id|
+---+
|  4|
|  3|
|  2|
|  1|
|  0|
+---+

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