pandas.read_parquet¶
-
pandas.
read_parquet
(path, engine='auto', columns=None, **kwargs)[source]¶ Load a parquet object from the file path, returning a DataFrame.
Parameters: - path : str, path object or file-like object
Any valid string path is acceptable. 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.parquet
.If you want to pass in a path object, pandas accepts any
os.PathLike
.By file-like object, we refer to objects with a
read()
method, such as a file handler (e.g. via builtinopen
function) orStringIO
.- engine : {‘auto’, ‘pyarrow’, ‘fastparquet’}, default ‘auto’
Parquet library to use. If ‘auto’, then the option
io.parquet.engine
is used. The defaultio.parquet.engine
behavior is to try ‘pyarrow’, falling back to ‘fastparquet’ if ‘pyarrow’ is unavailable.- columns : list, default=None
If not None, only these columns will be read from the file.
- **kwargs
Any additional kwargs are passed to the engine.
Returns: - DataFrame