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25 changes: 6 additions & 19 deletions doc/source/user_guide/io.rst
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Expand Up @@ -5280,24 +5280,21 @@ Write to a parquet file.

.. ipython:: python

df.to_parquet("example_pa.parquet", engine="pyarrow")
df.to_parquet("example_fp.parquet", engine="fastparquet")
# specify engine="pyarrow" or engine="fastparquet" to use a specific engine
df.to_parquet("example.parquet")

Read from a parquet file.

.. ipython:: python

result = pd.read_parquet("example_fp.parquet", engine="fastparquet")
result = pd.read_parquet("example_pa.parquet", engine="pyarrow")

result = pd.read_parquet("example.parquet")
result.dtypes

By setting the ``dtype_backend`` argument you can control the default dtypes used for the resulting DataFrame.

.. ipython:: python

result = pd.read_parquet("example_pa.parquet", engine="pyarrow", dtype_backend="pyarrow")

result = pd.read_parquet("example.parquet", dtype_backend="pyarrow")
result.dtypes

.. note::
Expand All @@ -5309,24 +5306,14 @@ Read only certain columns of a parquet file.

.. ipython:: python

result = pd.read_parquet(
"example_fp.parquet",
engine="fastparquet",
columns=["a", "b"],
)
result = pd.read_parquet(
"example_pa.parquet",
engine="pyarrow",
columns=["a", "b"],
)
result = pd.read_parquet("example.parquet", columns=["a", "b"])
result.dtypes


.. ipython:: python
:suppress:

os.remove("example_pa.parquet")
os.remove("example_fp.parquet")
os.remove("example.parquet")


Handling indexes
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