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<h1>snowflake.snowpark.Column.cast<a class="headerlink" href="#snowflake-snowpark-column-cast" title="Permalink to this heading" data-nosnippet="">¶</a></h1>
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Column.cast(to: Union[str, <a class="reference internal" href="snowflake.snowpark.types.DataType.html#snowflake.snowpark.types.DataType" title="snowflake.snowpark.types.DataType">DataType</a>]) → <a class="reference internal" href="snowflake.snowpark.Column.html#snowflake.snowpark.Column" title="snowflake.snowpark.column.Column">Column</a><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowpark-python/blob/release-v1.8.0/src/snowflake/snowpark/column.py#L502-L506">[source]</a><a class="headerlink" href="#snowflake.snowpark.Column.cast" title="Permalink to this definition" data-nosnippet="">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Casts the value of the Column to the specified data type.
It raises an error when the conversion can not be performed.
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snowflake.snowpark.Column.cast¶