pyspark.sql.functions.collation

pyspark.sql.functions.collation(col)

Returns the collation name of a given column.

New in version 4.0.0.

Parameters

colColumn or str

Target string column to work on.

Returns

Column

collation name of a given expression.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('name',)], ['dt'])
>>> df.select(collation('dt').alias('collation')).show()
+-----------+
|  collation|
+-----------+
|UTF8_BINARY|
+-----------+