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-rw-r--r--python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
index 03b01a1136..902504df5b 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py
@@ -616,7 +616,19 @@ class DataFrame(object):
| min| 2|
| max| 5|
+-------+---+
+ >>> df.describe(['age', 'name']).show()
+ +-------+---+-----+
+ |summary|age| name|
+ +-------+---+-----+
+ | count| 2| 2|
+ | mean|3.5| null|
+ | stddev|1.5| null|
+ | min| 2|Alice|
+ | max| 5| Bob|
+ +-------+---+-----+
"""
+ if len(cols) == 1 and isinstance(cols[0], list):
+ cols = cols[0]
jdf = self._jdf.describe(self._jseq(cols))
return DataFrame(jdf, self.sql_ctx)