pyspark.sql.functions.array_union

pyspark.sql.functions.array_union(col1, col2)

Collection function: returns an array of the elements in the union of col1 and col2, without duplicates.

New in version 2.4.0.

Parameters

col1Column or str

name of column containing array

col2Column or str

name of column containing array

Examples

>>> from pyspark.sql import Row
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([Row(c1=["b", "a", "c"], c2=["c", "d", "a", "f"])])
>>> df.select(array_union(df.c1, df.c2)).collect()
[Row(array_union(c1, c2)=['b', 'a', 'c', 'd', 'f'])]

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