How can I use display() in a python notebook with pyspark.sql.Row Objects, e.g. after calling the first() operation on a DataFrame?

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to

display()

the results from calling

first()

on a DataFrame, but

display()

doesn't work with

pyspark.sql.Row

objects. How can I display this result?

[Anonymous]

The

display()

function requires a collection as opposed to single item, so any of the following examples will give you a means to displaying the results:

• `display([df.first()])` # just make it an array

• display(df.take(1))

  # take w/ 1 is functionally equivalent to first(), but returns a DataFrame

• display(df.limit(1))

  # I'm not 100% sure this is guaranteed to be ordered, but it's another option to try that returns a DataFrame

[dnchari]

Use take()