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GeorgeOfTheRF
GeorgeOfTheRF

Reputation: 8844

How to conditionally replace value in a column based on evaluation of expression based on another column in Pyspark?

import numpy as np

df = spark.createDataFrame(
    [(1, 1, None),
     (1, 2, float(5)),
     (1, 3, np.nan),
     (1, 4, None),
     (0, 5, float(10)),
     (1, 6, float('nan')),
     (0, 6, float('nan'))],
    ('session', "timestamp1", "id2"))

+-------+----------+----+
|session|timestamp1| id2|
+-------+----------+----+
|      1|         1|null|
|      1|         2| 5.0|
|      1|         3| NaN|
|      1|         4|null|
|      0|         5|10.0|
|      1|         6| NaN|
|      0|         6| NaN|
+-------+----------+----+

How to replace value of timestamp1 column with value 999 when session==0?

Expected output

+-------+----------+----+
|session|timestamp1| id2|
+-------+----------+----+
|      1|         1|null|
|      1|         2| 5.0|
|      1|         3| NaN|
|      1|         4|null|
|      0|       999|10.0|
|      1|         6| NaN|
|      0|       999| NaN|
+-------+----------+----+

Is it possible to do it using replace() in PySpark?

Upvotes: 53

Views: 118286

Answers (1)

Assaf Mendelson
Assaf Mendelson

Reputation: 12991

You should be using the when (with otherwise) function:

from pyspark.sql.functions import when

targetDf = df.withColumn("timestamp1", \
              when(df["session"] == 0, 999).otherwise(df["timestamp1"]))

Upvotes: 116

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