{"id":127674,"date":"2022-08-30T12:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.finxter.com\/?p=628454"},"modified":"2022-08-30T12:40:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:40:30","slug":"python-convert-parquet-to-csv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/30\/python-convert-parquet-to-csv\/","title":{"rendered":"Python Convert Parquet to CSV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Problem<\/h2>\n

\"\ud83d\udcac\" Challenge<\/strong>: How to convert a Parquet file 'my_file.parquet'<\/code> to a CSV file 'my_file.csv'<\/code> in Python?<\/p>\n

In case you don’t know what a Parquet file is, here’s the definition:<\/p>\n

\"\ud83d\udca1\" Info<\/strong>: Apache Parquet<\/a> is an open-source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval using data compression and encoding schemes to handle complex data in bulk. Parquet is available in multiple languages including Java, C++, and Python.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an example Parquet file format:<\/p>\n

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The most simple way to convert a Parquet to a CSV file in Python is to import the Pandas library, call the pandas.read_parquet()<\/code> function passing the 'my_file.parquet'<\/code> filename argument to load the file content into a DataFrame, and convert the DataFrame to a CSV using the DataFrame to_csv()<\/a><\/code> method.<\/p>\n