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PySpark Column | otherwise method

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PySpark Column's otherwise(~) method is used after a when(~) method to implement an if-else logic. Click here for our documentation on when(~) method.

Parameters

1. value

The value to assign if the conditions set by when(~) are not satisfied.

Return Value

A PySpark Column (pyspark.sql.column.Column).

Examples

Basic usage

Consider the following PySpark DataFrame:

df = spark.createDataFrame([["Alex", 20], ["Bob", 24], ["Cathy", 22]], ["name", "age"])
df.show()
+-----+---+
| name|age|
+-----+---+
| Alex| 20|
| Bob| 24|
|Cathy| 22|
+-----+---+

To replace the name Alex with Doge, and others with Eric:

import pyspark.sql.functions as F
df.select(F.when(df.name == "Alex", "Doge").otherwise("Eric")).show()
+-----------------------------------------------+
|CASE WHEN (name = Alex) THEN Doge ELSE Eric END|
+-----------------------------------------------+
| Doge|
| Eric|
| Eric|
+-----------------------------------------------+

Note that we can replace our existing column with the new column like so:

df.name = F.when(df.name == "Alex", "Doge").otherwise("Eric")
df.show()
+----+---+
|name|age|
+----+---+
|Doge| 25|
|Eric| 30|
|Eric| 50|
+----+---+
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