title: How to check if a Hive table exists using PySpark
body: <p>I want to check if a table <code>schemaname.tablename</code> exists in Hive using <code>pysparkSQL</code>.</p>
  
  <p>There is an option in Scala <code>spark.catalog.tableExists("schemaname.tablename")</code>.However , same functionality not available through <code>pySpark</code> .</p>
  
  <p>Looking for a quick and clean approach to check if Hive table exists using <code>PySpark</code></p>