How to find maximum value of a column in python dataframe

Question

I have a data frame in pyspark. In this data frame I have column called id that is unique.

Now I want to find the maximum value of

Answer 1

I'm coming from scala, but I do believe that this is also applicable on python.

val max = df.select(max("id")).first()

but you have first import the following :

from pyspark.sql.functions import max