A colleague found how to do this, the approach was to use a udf() cheers
On 21 February 2016 at 22:41, Franc Carter <franc.car...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a DataFrame that has a Python dict() as one of the columns. I'd > like to filter he DataFrame for those Rows that where the dict() contains a > specific value. e.g something like this:- > > DF2 = DF1.filter('name' in DF1.params) > > but that gives me this error > > ValueError: Cannot convert column into bool: please use '&' for 'and', '|' > for 'or', '~' for 'not' when building DataFrame boolean expressions. > > How do I express this correctly ? > > thanks > > -- > Franc > -- Franc