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# pandas.read_hdf

pandas.read_hdf(path_or_buf, key=None, mode='r', errors='strict', where=None, start=None, stop=None, columns=None, iterator=False, chunksize=None, **kwargs)

  Read from the store, close it if we opened it.

  Retrieve pandas object stored in file, optionally based on where criteria.

  Warning

  Pandas uses PyTables for reading and writing HDF5 files, which allows serializing object-dtype data with pickle when using the “fixed” format. Loading pickled data received from untrusted sources can be unsafe.

  See: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html for more.

  Parameters:
    path_or_bufstr, path object, pandas.HDFStore

      Any valid string path is acceptable. Only supports the local file system, remote URLs and file-like objects are not supported.

      If you want to pass in a path object, pandas accepts any `os.PathLike`.

      Alternatively, pandas accepts an open `pandas.HDFStore` object.

    keyobject, optional

      The group identifier in the store. Can be omitted if the HDF file contains a single pandas object.

    mode{‘r’, ‘r+’, ‘a’}, default ‘r’

      Mode to use when opening the file. Ignored if path_or_buf is a `pandas.HDFStore`. Default is ‘r’.

    errorsstr, default ‘strict’

      Specifies how encoding and decoding errors are to be handled. See the errors argument for `open()` for a full list of options.

    wherelist, optional

      A list of Term (or convertible) objects.

    startint, optional

      Row number to start selection.

    stopint, optional

      Row number to stop selection.

    columnslist, optional

      A list of columns names to return.

    iteratorbool, optional

      Return an iterator object.

    chunksizeint, optional

      Number of rows to include in an iteration when using an iterator.

    **kwargs

      Additional keyword arguments passed to HDFStore.

  Returns:
    object

      The selected object. Return type depends on the object stored.

  See also

  `DataFrame.to_hdf`

    Write a HDF file from a DataFrame.

  `HDFStore`

    Low-level access to HDF files.

  Notes

  When `errors="surrogatepass"`, `pd.options.future.infer_string` is true, and PyArrow is installed, if a UTF-16 surrogate is encountered when decoding to UTF-8, the resulting dtype will be `pd.StringDtype(storage="python", na_value=np.nan)`.

  Examples

      >>> df = pd.DataFrame([[1, 1.0, 'a']], columns=['x', 'y', 'z'])
      >>> df.to_hdf('./store.h5', 'data')
      >>> reread = pd.read_hdf('./store.h5')