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<h1>API Reference<a class="headerlink" href="#api-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>This page lists an overview of all public PySpark modules, classes, functions and methods.</p>
<p>Pandas API on Spark follows the API specifications of latest pandas release.</p>
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