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# pandas.read_feather

pandas.read_feather(path, columns=None, use_threads=True, storage_options=None, dtype_backend=<no_default>)

  Load a feather-format object from the file path.

  Parameters:
    pathstr, path object, or file-like object

      String, path object (implementing `os.PathLike[str]`), or file-like object implementing a binary `read()` function. The string could be a URL. Valid URL schemes include http, ftp, s3, and file. For file URLs, a host is expected. A local file could be: `file://localhost/path/to/table.feather`.

    columnssequence, default None

      If not provided, all columns are read.

    use_threadsbool, default True

      Whether to parallelize reading using multiple threads.

    storage_optionsdict, optional

      Extra options that make sense for a particular storage connection, e.g. host, port, username, password, etc. For HTTP(S) URLs the key-value pairs are forwarded to `urllib.request.Request` as header options. For other URLs (e.g. starting with “s3://”, and “gcs://”) the key-value pairs are forwarded to `fsspec.open`. Please see `fsspec` and `urllib` for more details, and for more examples on storage options refer here.

    dtype_backend{‘numpy_nullable’, ‘pyarrow’}, default ‘numpy_nullable’

      Back-end data type applied to the resultant `DataFrame` (still experimental). Behaviour is as follows:

      - `"numpy_nullable"`: returns nullable-dtype-backed `DataFrame` (default).

      - `"pyarrow"`: returns pyarrow-backed nullable `ArrowDtype` DataFrame.

      Added in version 2.0.

  Returns:
    type of object stored in file

  Examples

      >>> df = pd.read_feather("path/to/file.feather")