pyspark.sql.functions.to_date¶

pyspark.sql.functions.to_date(col: ColumnOrName, format: Optional[str] = None) → pyspark.sql.column.Column[source]¶

Converts a Column into pyspark.sql.types.DateType using the optionally specified format. Specify formats according to datetime pattern. By default, it follows casting rules to pyspark.sql.types.DateType if the format is omitted. Equivalent to col.cast("date").

New in version 2.2.0.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('1997-02-28 10:30:00',)], ['t'])
>>> df.select(to_date(df.t).alias('date')).collect()
[Row(date=datetime.date(1997, 2, 28))]

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('1997-02-28 10:30:00',)], ['t'])
>>> df.select(to_date(df.t, 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss').alias('date')).collect()
[Row(date=datetime.date(1997, 2, 28))]

pyspark.sql.functions.to_timestamp pyspark.sql.functions.trunc