How to exclude multiple columns in Spark dataframe in Python

Question

I found PySpark has a method called drop but it seems it can only drop one column at a time. Any ideas about how to drop multiple columns at the same time?

Answer 1

In PySpark 2.1.0 method drop supports multiple columns:

PySpark 2.0.2:

DataFrame.drop(col)

PySpark 2.1.0:

DataFrame.drop(*cols)

Example:

df.drop('col1', 'col2')