I've successfully create a row_number() and partitionBy() by in Spark using Window, but would like to sort this by descending, instead of the default ascending. Here is my working code: from pyspark import HiveContext from pyspark.sql.types import * from pyspark.sql import Row, functions as F from pyspark.sql.window import Window ( data_cooccur .select( "driver", "also_item", "unit_count", F.rowNumber().over( Window .partitionBy("driver") .orderBy("unit_count") ).alias("rowNum") ) .show() ) That gives me this result: +------+---------+----------+------+ |driver|also_item|unit_count|rowNum| +------+---------+----------+------+ | s10| s11| 1| 1| | s10| s13| 1| 2| | s10| s17| 1| 3| +------+---------+----------+------+ And here I add the desc() to order descending: ( data_cooccur .select( "driver", "also_item", "unit_count", F.rowNumber().over( Window .partitionBy("driver") .orderBy("unit_count") .desc() ).alias("rowNum") ) .show() ) And get this error: > AttributeError: 'WindowSpec' object has no attribute 'desc' What am I doing wrong here? Continue reading...