pyspark.sql.functions.base64¶

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

colColumn 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==|
+----------------+

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