pyspark.sql.functions.bit_length

pyspark.sql.functions.bit_length(col: ColumnOrName) → pyspark.sql.column.Column

Calculates the bit length for the specified string column.

New in version 3.3.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

colColumn or str

Source column or strings

Returns

Column

Bit length of the col

Examples

>>> from pyspark.sql.functions import bit_length
>>> spark.createDataFrame([('cat',), ( '🐈',)], ['cat']) \
...      .select(bit_length('cat')).collect()
    [Row(bit_length(cat)=24), Row(bit_length(cat)=32)]

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