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pandas.DataFrame.from_records

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

Convert structured or record ndarray to DataFrame

Parameters :

data : ndarray (structured dtype), list of tuples, dict, 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. If the passed data do not have named associated with them, this argument provides names for the columns. Otherwise this argument indicates the order of the columns in the result (any names not found in the data will become all-NA columns)

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