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snowflake.snowpark.functions.as_binary¶

snowflake.snowpark.functions.as_binary(variant: Union[Column, str]) → Column[source]¶

Casts a VARIANT value to a binary string.

Example::

>>> 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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