PySpark DataFrame - drop and dropDuplicates

Code description

PySpark DataFrame APIs provide two drop related methods: drop and dropDuplicates (or drop_duplicates). The former is used to drop specified column(s) from a DataFrame while the latter is used to drop duplicated rows. 

This code snippet utilizes these tow functions.

Outputs:

+----+------+
|ACCT|AMT   |
+----+------+
|101 |10.01 |
|101 |10.01 |
|101 |102.01|
+----+------+

+----+----------+------+
|ACCT|TXN_DT    |AMT   |
+----+----------+------+
|101 |2021-01-01|102.01|
|101 |2021-01-01|10.01 |
+----+----------+------+

+----+----------+------+
|ACCT|TXN_DT    |AMT   |
+----+----------+------+
|101 |2021-01-01|102.01|
|101 |2021-01-01|10.01 |
+----+----------+------+

Code snippet

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

appName = "PySpark drop and dropDuplicates"
master = "local"

spark = SparkSession.builder \
    .appName(appName) \
    .master(master) \
    .getOrCreate()

spark.sparkContext.setLogLevel("ERROR")

# Create a dataframe
df = spark.sql("""SELECT ACCT, TXN_DT, AMT FROM VALUES 
(101,10.01, DATE'2021-01-01'),
(101,10.01, DATE'2021-01-01'),
(101,102.01, DATE'2021-01-01')
AS TXN(ACCT,AMT,TXN_DT)""")

print(df.schema)

# Use drop function
df.drop('TXN_DT').show(truncate=False)

# Use dropDuplicates function; drop_duplicates is the alias of dropDuplicates
df.drop_duplicates().show(truncate=False)
df.dropDuplicates().show(truncate=False)