pyarrow.ipc.open_file¶

pyarrow.ipc.open_file(source, footer_offset=None)[source]¶

Create reader for Arrow file format.

Parameters

source (bytes/buffer-like, pyarrow.NativeFile, or file-like Python object) – Either an in-memory buffer, or a readable file object.
footer_offset (int, default None) – If the file is embedded in some larger file, this is the byte offset to the very end of the file data.

Returns

reader (RecordBatchFileReader)

pyarrow.ipc.new_file pyarrow.ipc.new_stream