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snowflake.snowpark.functions.as_boolean¶

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

Casts a VARIANT value to a boolean.

Parameters:: variant (ColumnOrName) – A Column or column name containing VARIANT values to be cast to boolean.
Returns:: ColumnL The boolean values cast from the VARIANT input.

Example::

>>> from snowflake.snowpark.functions import to_variant, to_boolean
>>> df = session.create_dataframe([
...     [True],
...     [False]
... ], schema=["a"])
>>> df.select(as_boolean(to_variant(to_boolean(df["a"]))).alias("result")).collect()
[Row(RESULT=True), Row(RESULT=False)]

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