Input/output

Pickling

read_pickle(filepath_or_buffer, …)

Load pickled pandas object (or any object) from file.

Flat file

read_table(filepath_or_buffer, pathlib.Path, …)	Read general delimited file into DataFrame.
read_csv(filepath_or_buffer, pathlib.Path, …)	Read a comma-separated values (csv) file into DataFrame.
read_fwf(filepath_or_buffer, pathlib.Path, …)	Read a table of fixed-width formatted lines into DataFrame.

Clipboard

read_clipboard([sep])

Read text from clipboard and pass to read_csv.

Excel

read_excel(io[, sheet_name, header, names, …])	Read an Excel file into a pandas DataFrame.
ExcelFile.parse(self[, sheet_name, header, …])	Parse specified sheet(s) into a DataFrame.

ExcelWriter(path[, engine, date_format, …])

Class for writing DataFrame objects into excel sheets.

JSON

read_json([path_or_buf, orient, typ, dtype, …])	Convert a JSON string to pandas object.
json_normalize(data, List[Dict]], …)	Normalize semi-structured JSON data into a flat table.

build_table_schema(data[, index, …])

Create a Table schema from data.

HTML

read_html(io[, match, flavor, header, …])

Read HTML tables into a list of DataFrame objects.

HDFStore: PyTables (HDF5)

read_hdf(path_or_buf[, key, where, columns, …])	Read from the store, close it if we opened it.
HDFStore.put(self, key, value[, format, …])	Store object in HDFStore.
HDFStore.append(self, key, value[, format, …])	Append to Table in file.
HDFStore.get(self, key)	Retrieve pandas object stored in file.
HDFStore.select(self, key[, where, start, …])	Retrieve pandas object stored in file, optionally based on where criteria.
HDFStore.info(self)	Print detailed information on the store.
HDFStore.keys(self)	Return a list of keys corresponding to objects stored in HDFStore.
HDFStore.groups(self)	Return a list of all the top-level nodes.
HDFStore.walk(self[, where])	Walk the pytables group hierarchy for pandas objects.

Feather

read_feather(path[, columns])

Load a feather-format object from the file path.

Parquet

read_parquet(path, engine[, columns])

Load a parquet object from the file path, returning a DataFrame.

ORC

read_orc(path, pathlib.Path, IO[~AnyStr]], …)

Load an ORC object from the file path, returning a DataFrame.

SAS

read_sas(filepath_or_buffer[, format, …])

Read SAS files stored as either XPORT or SAS7BDAT format files.

SPSS

read_spss(path, pathlib.Path], usecols, …)

Load an SPSS file from the file path, returning a DataFrame.

SQL

read_sql_table(table_name, con[, schema, …])	Read SQL database table into a DataFrame.
read_sql_query(sql, con[, index_col, …])	Read SQL query into a DataFrame.
read_sql(sql, con[, index_col, …])	Read SQL query or database table into a DataFrame.

Google BigQuery

read_gbq(query, project_id, …[, …])

Load data from Google BigQuery.

STATA

read_stata(filepath_or_buffer[, …])

Read Stata file into DataFrame.

StataReader.data_label	Return data label of Stata file.
StataReader.value_labels(self)	Return a dict, associating each variable name a dict, associating each value its corresponding label.
StataReader.variable_labels(self)	Return variable labels as a dict, associating each variable name with corresponding label.
StataWriter.write_file(self)

API reference General functions