pyspark.sql.functions.unhex

pyspark.sql.functions.unhex(col)

Inverse of hex. Interprets each pair of characters as a hexadecimal number and converts to the byte representation of number.

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

string representation of given hexadecimal value.

Examples

>>> spark.createDataFrame([('414243',)], ['a']).select(unhex('a')).collect()
[Row(unhex(a)=bytearray(b'ABC'))]