snowflake.snowpark.functions.as_binary¶

snowflake.snowpark.functions.as_binary(variant: Union[Column, str]) → Column[source] (https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowpark-python/blob/v1.16.0/src/snowflake/snowpark/functions.py#L5935-L5949)¶

Casts a VARIANT value to a binary string.

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>>> df = session.sql("select to_binary('F0A5')::variant as a")
>>> df.select(as_binary("a").alias("result")).show()
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|"RESULT"                |
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|bytearray(b'ð¥')  |
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