pyarrow.ipc.RecordBatchStreamReader

class pyarrow.ipc.RecordBatchStreamReader(source)

Bases: pyarrow.lib._RecordBatchStreamReader, pyarrow.ipc._ReadPandasOption

Reader for the Arrow streaming binary format.

Parameters

source (bytes/buffer-like, pyarrow.NativeFile, or file-like Python object) – Either an in-memory buffer, or a readable file object.

__init__(source)

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

Methods

__init__(source)	Initialize self.
get_next_batch(self)
read_all(self)	Read all record batches as a pyarrow.Table.
read_next_batch(self)	Read next RecordBatch from the stream.
read_pandas(**options)	Read contents of stream to a pandas.DataFrame.

Attributes

schema

get_next_batch(self)

read_all(self)

Read all record batches as a pyarrow.Table.

read_next_batch(self)

Read next RecordBatch from the stream.

Raises

StopIteration: – At end of stream.

read_pandas(**options)

Read contents of stream to a pandas.DataFrame.

Read all record batches as a pyarrow.Table then convert it to a pandas.DataFrame using Table.to_pandas.

Parameters

**options (arguments to forward to Table.to_pandas) –

Returns

df (pandas.DataFrame)

schema