pandas.Series.from_csv¶
- classmethod Series.from_csv(path, sep=', ', parse_dates=True, header=None, index_col=0, encoding=None, infer_datetime_format=False)¶
Read CSV file (DISCOURAGED, please use pandas.read_csv() instead).
It is preferable to use the more powerful pandas.read_csv() for most general purposes, but from_csv makes for an easy roundtrip to and from a file (the exact counterpart of to_csv), especially with a time Series.
This method only differs from pandas.read_csv() in some defaults:
- index_col is 0 instead of None (take first column as index by default)
- header is None instead of 0 (the first row is not used as the column names)
- parse_dates is True instead of False (try parsing the index as datetime by default)
With pandas.read_csv(), the option squeeze=True can be used to return a Series like from_csv.
Parameters: path : string file path or file handle / StringIO
sep : string, default ‘,’
Field delimiter
parse_dates : boolean, default True
Parse dates. Different default from read_table
header : int, default None
Row to use as header (skip prior rows)
index_col : int or sequence, default 0
Column to use for index. If a sequence is given, a MultiIndex is used. Different default from read_table
encoding : string, optional
a string representing the encoding to use if the contents are non-ascii, for python versions prior to 3
infer_datetime_format: boolean, default False
If True and parse_dates is True for a column, try to infer the datetime format based on the first datetime string. If the format can be inferred, there often will be a large parsing speed-up.
Returns: y : Series
See also