milenkovicm commented on PR #1276:
URL:
https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/1276#issuecomment-3403323740
> FWIW I did a quick test with this:
>
> ```diff
> --- a/python/datafusion/dataframe.py
> +++ b/python/datafusion/dataframe.py
> @@ -424,7 +424,9 @@ class DataFrame:
> df = df.select("a", col("b"), col("a").alias("alternate_a"))
>
> """
> - exprs_internal = expr_list_to_raw_expr_list(exprs)
> + expr_list = [self.parse_sql_expr(e) if isinstance(e, str) else e
for e in exprs]
> +
> + exprs_internal = expr_list_to_raw_expr_list(expr_list)
> return DataFrame(self.df.select(*exprs_internal))
> ```
>
> With that you can do `df.select("a-b")`. It feels very intuitive to me.
should we roll back df.select_expr and do this instead @timsaucer , it makes
sense to me to do it
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