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Method arrayMethod colMethod collect_listMethod collect_setMethod concatMethod concat_wsMethod countMethod count_distinctMethod countDistinctMethod date_formatMethod dayofmonthMethod dayofweekMethod dayofyearMethod element_atMethod explodeMethod exprMethod firstMethod greatestMethod instrMethod lastMethod leastMethod lengthMethod litMethod lowerMethod maxMethod meanMethod minMethod monthMethod regexp_extractMethod regexp_replaceMethod repeatMethod roundMethod splitMethod to_dateMethod translateMethod trimMethod upperMethod whenMethod year
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PySpark SQL Functions | dayofweek method
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expand_more PySpark SQL Functions' dayofweek(~) method extracts the day of the week of each datetime value or date string of a PySpark column.
Parameters
1. col | string or Column
The date column from which to extract the day of the week.
Return Value
A Column of integers.
Examples
Consider the following PySpark DataFrame with some datetime values:
import datetimedf = spark.createDataFrame([["Alex", datetime.date(1995,12,16)], ["Bob", datetime.date(1995,5,9)]], ["name", "birthday"])
+----+----------+|name| birthday|+----+----------+|Alex|1995-12-16|| Bob|1995-05-09|+----+----------+
Getting the day of the week from datetime values in PySpark DataFrame
To get the day of the week in PySpark DataFrame:
Here:
7represents Sunday while1represents Monday.we are using
alias(~)to give a label to theColumnobject returned bydayofweek(~).
Getting the day of week from date strings in PySpark DataFrame
Note that the method still works even if the date is in string form:
+---+|day|+---+| 7|| 1|+---+
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Official PySpark Documentation
https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/reference/api/pyspark.sql.functions.dayofweek.html
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