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Teradata® Package for Python Function Reference on VantageCloud Lake

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Package for Python
Release Number
20.00.00.03
Published
December 2024
ft:locale
en-US
ft:lastEdition
2024-12-19
dita:id
TeradataPython_FxRef_Lake_2000
Product Category
Teradata Vantage
teradataml.dataframe.sql.DataFrameColumn.character_length = character_length()
DESCRIPTION:
    Function returns the number of characters in the values of column.
 
ALTERNATE_NAMES:
    char_length
    length
 
RAISES:
    TypeError, ValueError, TeradataMlException
 
RETURNS:
    DataFrameColumn
 
EXAMPLES:
    # Load the data to run the example.
    >>> load_example_data("dataframe", "admissions_train")
 
    # Create a DataFrame on 'admissions_train' table.
    >>> df = DataFrame("admissions_train").iloc[:4]
    >>> print(df)
       masters   gpa     stats programming  admitted
    id
    3       no  3.70    Novice    Beginner         1
    4      yes  3.50  Beginner      Novice         1
    2      yes  3.76  Beginner    Beginner         0
    1      yes  3.95  Beginner    Beginner         0
 
    # Example 1: Returns length of character string in "programming" column and pass
    #            it as input to DataFrame.assign().
    >>> result = df.assign(col = df.programming.character_length())
    >>> print(result)
       masters   gpa     stats programming  admitted  col
    id
    3       no  3.70    Novice    Beginner         1  8.0
    4      yes  3.50  Beginner      Novice         1  6.0
    2      yes  3.76  Beginner    Beginner         0  8.0
    1      yes  3.95  Beginner    Beginner         0  8.0
 
    # Example 2: Executed character_length() function on "programming" column and filtered computed
    #            values which are equal to '6.0'.
    >>> print(df[df.programming.character_length() == 6.0])
       masters  gpa     stats programming  admitted
    id
    4      yes  3.5  Beginner      Novice         1