pyspark.sql.functions.
base64
(
col
:
ColumnOrName
)
→ pyspark.sql.column.Column
[source]
Computes the BASE64 encoding of a binary column and returns it as a string column.
New in version 1.5.0.
Changed in version 3.4.0:
Supports Spark Connect.
Parameters
col
Column
or str
target column to work on.
Returns
Column
BASE64 encoding of string value.
Examples
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame(["Spark", "PySpark", "Pandas API"], "STRING")
>>> df.select(base64("value")).show()
+----------------+
| base64(value)|
+----------------+
| U3Bhcms=|
| UHlTcGFyaw==|
|UGFuZGFzIEFQSQ==|
+----------------+
