AssertionError: col should be Column

Question

How to create a new column in PySpark and fill this column with the date of today?

This is what I tried:

import datetime now = datetime.datetime.now() df = df.withColumn("date", str(now)[:10]) 

I get this error:

AssertionError: col should be Column

Answer 1

How to create a new column in PySpark and fill this column with the date of today?

There is already function for that:

from pyspark.sql.functions import current_date  df.withColumn("date", current_date().cast("string")) 

AssertionError: col should be Column

Use literal

from pyspark.sql.functions import lit  df.withColumn("date", lit(str(now)[:10]))