In pyspark, how do you add/concat a string to a column?

Question

I would like to add a string to an existing column. For example, df[\'col1\'] has values as \'1\', \'2\', \'3\' etc and I would like to concat stri

Answer 1

from pyspark.sql.functions import concat, col, lit


df.select(concat(col("firstname"), lit(" "), col("lastname"))).show(5)
+------------------------------+
|concat(firstname,  , lastname)|
+------------------------------+
|                Emanuel Panton|
|              Eloisa Cayouette|
|                   Cathi Prins|
|             Mitchel Mozdzierz|
|               Angla Hartzheim|
+------------------------------+
only showing top 5 rows

http://spark.apache.org/docs/2.0.0/api/python/pyspark.sql.html#module-pyspark.sql.functions