pyarrow.ipc.RecordBatchStreamReader

class pyarrow.ipc.RecordBatchStreamReader(source, *, options=None, memory_pool=None)

Bases: _RecordBatchStreamReader

Reader for the Arrow streaming binary format.

Parameters:

sourcebytes/buffer-like, pyarrow.NativeFile, or file-like Python object

Either an in-memory buffer, or a readable file object. If you want to use memory map use MemoryMappedFile as source.

optionspyarrow.ipc.IpcReadOptions

Options for IPC deserialization. If None, default values will be used.

memory_poolMemoryPool, default None

If None, default memory pool is used.

__init__(source, *, options=None, memory_pool=None)

Methods

__init__(source, *[, options, memory_pool])
close(self)	Release any resources associated with the reader.
from_batches(schema, batches)	Create RecordBatchReader from an iterable of batches.
get_next_batch(self)	DEPRECATED: return the next record batch.
read_all(self)	Read all record batches as a pyarrow.Table.
read_next_batch(self)	Read next RecordBatch from the stream.
read_pandas(self, **options)	Read contents of stream to a pandas.DataFrame.

Attributes

schema	Shared schema of the record batches in the stream.
stats	Current IPC read statistics.

close(self)

Release any resources associated with the reader.

static from_batches(schema, batches)

Create RecordBatchReader from an iterable of batches.

Parameters:

schemaSchema

The shared schema of the record batches

batchesIterable[RecordBatch]

The batches that this reader will return.

Returns:

readerRecordBatchReader

get_next_batch(self)

DEPRECATED: return the next record batch.

Use read_next_batch instead.

read_all(self)

Read all record batches as a pyarrow.Table.

Returns:

Table

read_next_batch(self)

Read next RecordBatch from the stream.

Returns:

RecordBatch

Raises:

StopIteration:

At end of stream.

read_pandas(self, **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:

dfpandas.DataFrame

schema

Shared schema of the record batches in the stream.

Returns:

Schema

stats

Current IPC read statistics.

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