pyspark.sql.functions.hex

pyspark.sql.functions.hex(col: ColumnOrName) → pyspark.sql.column.Column[source]

Computes hex value of the given column, which could be pyspark.sql.types.StringType, pyspark.sql.types.BinaryType, pyspark.sql.types.IntegerType or pyspark.sql.types.LongType.

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters
colColumn or str

target column to work on.

Returns
Column

hexadecimal representation of given value as string.

Examples

>>> spark.createDataFrame([('ABC', 3)], ['a', 'b']).select(hex('a'), hex('b')).collect()
[Row(hex(a)='414243', hex(b)='3')]