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How to Add an Empty Column to a DataFrame?

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In this short how-to article, we will learn how to add an empty column to Pandas and PySpark DataFrames.

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Pandas

We can create an empty column by assigning an empty string as follows:

df["f4"] = ""

PySpark

The logic is the same as Pandas but the implementation is a bit different. We can assign an empty string to a new column as follows:

from pyspark.sql import functions as F
df = df.withColumn("f4", F.lit(""))

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