What is the Python equivalent to R’s read.csv() function, and the data.frame it returns?
Is there a similar data structure in Python?
What is the Python equivalent to R’s read.csv() function, and the data.frame it returns?
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What is the Python equivalent to R’s read.csv() function, and the data.frame it returns?
Is there a similar data structure in Python?
Your have two elements in your question, (1) reading/writing CSV and (2) an equivalent data structure to the R
data.framethat results from reading in a CSV-file.For the first part, there is the
csvmodule in the standard library.For the second part, the standard library is lacking a equivalent tabular data structure with the flexibility of the the R
data.frame. You have two options, depending on the complexity of the operations you will be doing afterwards:DataFramedata structure in the pandas package. It has similar read/write functions for tabular fileformats, but has indexing/slicing, manipulation, built-in summary operations, etc. simmilar to the the Rdata.frame.