pyspark.sql.functions.power

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

Returns the value of the first argument raised to the power of the second argument.

New in version 1.4.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

col1Column, column name or float

the base number.

col2Column, column name or float

the exponent number.

Returns

Column

the base rased to the power the argument.

Examples

>>> from pyspark.sql import functions as sf
>>> spark.range(5).select("*", sf.pow("id", 2)).show()
+---+------------+
| id|POWER(id, 2)|
+---+------------+
|  0|         0.0|
|  1|         1.0|
|  2|         4.0|
|  3|         9.0|
|  4|        16.0|
+---+------------+