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PYSPARK โ€ข LESSON 11

Inspect Data Types (dtypes)

How do we view each column name alongside its inferred Spark SQL data type?

Beginnerโฑ 2 Minutesโญ 140 XP
๐Ÿค” THE QUESTION

How do we view each column name alongside its inferred Spark SQL data type?

๐Ÿ’ก WHAT IS IT?

The .dtypes property provides a list of (column_name, data_type_string) pairs for all fields.

๐ŸŽฏ WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

Checking type casting results, verifying numeric columns before aggregations, and debugging ingestion errors.

๐Ÿ’ป EXAMPLE
print(df.dtypes)

๐ŸŽฏ Mission Objectives

Practice typing production-grade PySpark code for Inspect Data Types (dtypes).

  • โœ“ Access the .dtypes property
  • โœ“ Verify column type assignments
  • โœ“ Audit schema data types