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pandas.DataFrame.from_records

classmethod DataFrame.from_records(data, index=None, exclude=None, columns=None, names=None, coerce_float=False)

Convert structured or record ndarray to DataFrame

Parameters :

data : ndarray (structured dtype), list of tuples, or DataFrame

index : string, list of fields, array-like

Field of array to use as the index, alternately a specific set of input labels to use

exclude: sequence, default None :

Columns or fields to exclude

columns : sequence, default None

Column names to use, replacing any found in passed data

coerce_float : boolean, default False

Attempt to convert values to non-string, non-numeric objects (like decimal.Decimal) to floating point, useful for SQL result sets

Returns :

df : DataFrame