An upstream system has been configured to pass the date for a given batch of...

The code block that should be used to create the date Python variable used in the above code block is:

dbutils.widgets.text(“date”, “null”) date = dbutils.widgets.get(“date”)

This code block uses the dbutils.widgets API to create and get a text widget named “date” that can accept a string value as a parameter 1 . The default value of the widget is “null”, which means that if no parameter is passed, the date variable will be “null”. However, if a parameter is passed through the Databricks Jobs API, the date variable will be assigned the value of the parameter. For example, if the parameter is “2021-11-01”, the date variable will be “2021-11-01”. This way, the notebook can use the date variable to load data from the specified path.

The other options are not correct, because:

Option A is incorrect because spark.conf.get(“date”) is not a valid way to get a parameter passed through the Databricks Jobs API.  The spark.conf API is used to get or set Spark configuration properties, not notebook parameters 2 .

Option B is incorrect because input() is not a valid way to get a parameter passed through the Databricks Jobs API.  The input() function is used to get user input from the standard input stream, not from the API request 3 .

Option C is incorrect because sys.argv 1  is not a valid way to get a parameter passed through the Databricks Jobs API.  The sys.argv list is used to get the command-line arguments passed to a Python script, not to a notebook 4 .

Option D is incorrect because dbutils.notebooks.getParam(“date”) is not a valid way to get a parameter passed through the Databricks Jobs API.  The dbutils.notebooks API is used to get or set notebook parameters when running a notebook as a job or as a subnotebook, not when passing parameters through the API 5 .