Day of the week pyspark

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I'm trying to get the day of the week from a given date in pyspark could anyone help me ?

dt = dt.withColumn("week_day_number", date_format(col("TRANSACTION_DATE"), "u"))

did you have a look at [How to get the weekday from day of month using pyspark](https://stackoverflow.com/q/38928919/10197418)? — FObersteiner, Oct 05 '21 at 14:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '21 at 14:26

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I'm trying to get the day of the week from a given date ..

See here.

(Once you have a datetime instance just call weekday())

Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6

import datetime

print(datetime.datetime.today().weekday())

answered Oct 05 '21 at 14:26

balderman

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