Pyspark 1.6.3 error when trying to use to_date method

Question

im currently working on pyspark 1.6.3 and there is this error. Do you know what can be the reason?

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Answer 1

In Pyspark 1.6 version to_date has only one argument from version it is accepting 2 parameters For 1.6: https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.6.0/api/python/pyspark.sql.html#module-pyspark.sql.functions

For 2.3: https://spark.apache.org/docs/2.3.1/api/python/pyspark.sql.html#module-pyspark.sql.functions