deanm0000 opened a new issue, #1064:
URL: https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/issues/1064
**Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe
what you are trying to do.**
Instead of doing
```python
df.select(
F.abs(
col("id1")
)
.alias("id1")
)
```
It would be nicer to do
```python
df.select(
col("id1")
.abs()
.alias("id1")
)
```
**Describe the solution you'd like**
This is already partly there, for example, `alias` is already in the Expr
class. It would be a bit tedious but easy to add under `class Expr`, for
example:
```python
def abs(self) -> datafusion.Expr:
"""Return the absolute value of a given number.
Returns:
--------
Expr
A new expression representing the absolute value of the input
expression.
"""
return F.abs(self)
```
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
if it weren't for the type hinter, monkey patching.
**Additional context**
There will still be functions that don't make sense to chain off of a call
to `col` such as `when` since it doesn't return an Expr. But, even functions
that take multiple inputs can have this for instance `col("a").atan2("b")`.
Additionally, this is completely backwards compatible since I'm not proposing
eliminating the functions module.
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