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from pyspark.sql.functions import col, unix_timestamp, to_date

#sample data
df = sc.parallelize([['12-21-2006'],
                     ['05-30-2007'],
                     ['01-01-1984'],
                     ['12-24-2017']]).toDF(["date_in_strFormat"])
df.printSchema()

df = df.withColumn('date_in_dateFormat', 
                   to_date(unix_timestamp(col('date_in_strFormat'), 'MM-dd-yyyy').cast("timestamp")))
df.show()
df.printSchema()

输出为:

root
 |-- date_in_strFormat: string (nullable = true)

+-----------------+------------------+
|date_in_strFormat|date_in_dateFormat|
+-----------------+------------------+
|       12-21-2006|        2006-12-21|
|       05-30-2007|        2007-05-30|
|       01-01-1984|        1984-01-01|
|       12-24-2017|        2017-12-24|
+-----------------+------------------+

root
 |-- date_in_strFormat: string (nullable = true)
 |-- date_in_dateFormat: date (nullable = true)