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PySpark SQL Functions | month method
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PySpark SQL Functions' month(~) method extracts the month component of each column value, which can be of type string or date.
Parameters
1. col | string or Column
The date column from which to extract the month.
Return Value
A Column object 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|+----+----------+
Extracting the month component of datetime values in PySpark DataFrame
To get the month component of datetime values:
Here, we are assigning the name "month" to the Column object returned by month(~).
Extracting the month component of date strings in PySpark DataFrame
To get the month component of date strings:
+-----+|month|+-----+| 12|| 5|+-----+
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Official PySpark Documentation
https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/reference/api/pyspark.sql.functions.month.html
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