IMPORTING AND EXPORTING
DATA BETWEEN CSV FILES
AND DATAFRAMES
CLASS- XIIB
SUBJECT- INFORMATICS PRACTICES
COMMA SEPARATED VALUE FILE
• A COMMASEPARATED VALUE (CSV) FILE IS A TEXT FILE WHERE VALUES ARE SEPARATED BY
COMMA. EACH LINE REPRESENTS A RECORD (ROW).
• THIS FILE IS USED TO STORE THE DATAFRAME CONTENT PERMANENTLY ON STORAGE DEVICE.
• EACH ROW CONSISTS OF ONE OR MORE FIELDS (COLUMNS). THEY CAN BE EASILY HANDLED
THROUGH A SPREADSHEET APPLICATION.
IMPORTING A CSV FILE TO A DATAFRAME
• STORE OR EXPORT DATA IN A DATAFRAME AS A .CSV FILE.
• THE FUNCTION USED TO STORE DATA AS CSV FILE:-
• SYNTAX:-
• FILE_OBJECT=PANDAS.READ_CSV(“FILE LOCATION”)
CSV file (month.csv)on
F1= PD.READ_CSV(“MONTHS. CSV",SEP =",", HEADER=0) spreadsheet
PRINT(F1)
DataFrame f1 after
read data from file
EXPORTING A DATAFRAME TO A CSV FILE
• USE THE TO_CSV() FUNCTION TO SAVE A DATAFRAME TO A TEXT OR CSV FILE.
• SYNTAX:- Set False to not save
Set False to not save
column names on file index label on file
• DF_OBJ.TO_CSV(“FILE NAME WITH LOC”, SEP=',’ ,HEADER = FALSE, INDEX= FALSE)
MCQ-RECAPITULATION
• WHAT CSV STANDS FOR?
1. COMMON SPECIAL VALUES
2. COMMA SEPARATED VALUES
3. COMMON SYMBOL VALID
4. NONE OF THESE
WHICH FUNCTION IS USED TO STORE DATA OF DATAFRAME IN CSV FILE.
1. DF.TO_CSV()
2. PD.READCSV()
3. PD.STORE_CSV()
4. PD.TO_CSV()
CONTINUE…..
• WHICH FUNCTION IS USED TO READ DATA FROM CSV FILE.
1. DF.CSV_READ()
2. PD.READ_CSV()
3. PD.TO_READ()
4. NONE OF THESE
• WHAT DO YOU MEANS BY IMPORT AND EXPORT DATA?
ASSIGNMENT:-
• CREATE A DATAFRAME OF EMPLOYEES RECORDS AND STORE IN “EMP.CSV” FILE.
• READ THE DATA FROM “EMP.CSV” AND DISPLAY ON SCREEN.