Store aggregate value of a PySpark dataframe column into a variable

Question

I am working with PySpark dataframes here. \"test1\" is my PySpark dataframe and event_date is a TimestampType. So when I try to get a distinct count of event_date, the resu

Answer 1

try this

loop_cnt=test1.select('event_date').distinct().count()
var = loop_cnt.collect()[0]

Hope this helps