pyspark.sql.functions.monthname

pyspark.sql.functions.monthname(col)

Returns the three-letter abbreviated month name from the given date.

New in version 4.0.0.

Parameters

colColumn or str

target date/timestamp column to work on.

Returns

Column

the three-letter abbreviation of month name for date/timestamp (Jan, Feb, Mar…)

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('2015-04-08',)], ['dt'])
>>> df.select(monthname('dt').alias('month')).show()
+-----+
|month|
+-----+
|  Apr|
+-----+