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Diffstat (limited to 'python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py')
-rw-r--r-- | python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py index 4eaa8d9c57..72180f6d05 100644 --- a/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py +++ b/python/pyspark/sql/dataframe.py @@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ class DataFrame(object): @ignore_unicode_prefix def withColumnRenamed(self, existing, new): - """REturns a new :class:`DataFrame` by renaming an existing column. + """Returns a new :class:`DataFrame` by renaming an existing column. :param existing: string, name of the existing column to rename. :param col: string, new name of the column. @@ -1027,6 +1027,18 @@ class DataFrame(object): for c in self.columns] return self.select(*cols) + @ignore_unicode_prefix + def drop(self, colName): + """Returns a new :class:`DataFrame` that drops the specified column. + + :param colName: string, name of the column to drop. + + >>> df.drop('age').collect() + [Row(name=u'Alice'), Row(name=u'Bob')] + """ + jdf = self._jdf.drop(colName) + return DataFrame(jdf, self.sql_ctx) + def toPandas(self): """Returns the contents of this :class:`DataFrame` as Pandas ``pandas.DataFrame``. |