pyspark.sql.functions.make_date

pyspark.sql.functions.make_date(year: ColumnOrName, month: ColumnOrName, day: ColumnOrName) → pyspark.sql.column.Column

Returns a column with a date built from the year, month and day columns.

New in version 3.3.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

yearColumn or str

The year to build the date

monthColumn or str

The month to build the date

dayColumn or str

The day to build the date

Returns

Column

a date built from given parts.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([(2020, 6, 26)], ['Y', 'M', 'D'])
>>> df.select(make_date(df.Y, df.M, df.D).alias("datefield")).collect()
[Row(datefield=datetime.date(2020, 6, 26))]

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