pandas.read_parquet — pandas 0.24.0rc1 documentation (original) (raw)

pandas. read_parquet(path, engine='auto', columns=None, **kwargs)[source]¶

Load a parquet object from the file path, returning a DataFrame.

Parameters:	path : string File path columns : list, default=None If not None, only these columns will be read from the file. engine : {‘auto’, ‘pyarrow’, ‘fastparquet’}, default ‘auto’ Parquet library to use. If ‘auto’, then the optionio.parquet.engine is used. The default io.parquet.enginebehavior is to try ‘pyarrow’, falling back to ‘fastparquet’ if ‘pyarrow’ is unavailable. kwargs are passed to the engine
Returns:	DataFrame

Parameters:

path : string File path columns : list, default=None If not None, only these columns will be read from the file. engine : {‘auto’, ‘pyarrow’, ‘fastparquet’}, default ‘auto’ Parquet library to use. If ‘auto’, then the optionio.parquet.engine is used. The default io.parquet.enginebehavior is to try ‘pyarrow’, falling back to ‘fastparquet’ if ‘pyarrow’ is unavailable. kwargs are passed to the engine

Returns:

DataFrame