| Unit 37 | Taming Pandas File I/O |
If you had no other reason to use pandas, you might still succumb to its mastery of file input and output. pandas input/output facilities enable data exchange between frames and series on one hand, and CSV files, tabular files, fixed-width files, JSON files (earlier discussed here), the operating system clipboard, and so on, on the other hand. Among other things, pandas supports:
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Automatic indexing and column names extraction
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Data type inference, data conversion, and missing data detection
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Datetime parsing
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The elimination of “unclean” data (skipping rows, footers, and comments; treating thousands’ separators)
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Data chunking
Reading CSV and Tabular Files
The read_csv function reads a frame from a CSV file designated ...
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