pyspark.sql.functions.date_sub

pyspark.sql.functions.date_sub(start, days)

Returns the date that is days days before start

New in version 1.5.0.

Examples

>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([('2015-04-08',)], ['dt'])
>>> df.select(date_sub(df.dt, 1).alias('prev_date')).collect()
[Row(prev_date=datetime.date(2015, 4, 7))]

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