pyspark.sql.SparkSession.table

SparkSession.table(tableName: str) → pyspark.sql.dataframe.DataFrame

Returns the specified table as a DataFrame.

New in version 2.0.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Parameters

tableNamestr

the table name to retrieve.

Returns

DataFrame

Examples

>>> spark.range(5).createOrReplaceTempView("table1")
>>> spark.table("table1").sort("id").show()
+---+
| id|
+---+
|  0|
|  1|
|  2|
|  3|
|  4|
+---+

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