Character-Separated Values

Read & Write

Reading a CSV file should look familiar:

df = pl.read_csv("path.csv")

CSV files come in many different flavors, so make sure to check the read_csv() API.

Writing to a CSV file can be done with the write_csv() method.

df = pl.DataFrame({"foo": [1, 2, 3], "bar": [None, "bak", "baz"]})
df.write_csv("path.csv")

Scan

Polars allows you to scan a CSV input. Scanning delays the actual parsing of the file and instead returns a lazy computation holder called a LazyFrame.

df = pl.scan_csv("path.csv")

If you want to know why this is desirable, you can read more about those Polars optimizations here.