If I ftp into a database and use pandas.read_sql to read in a huge file, what data type would the variable set equal to this be? And, if applicable, what kind of format would it be in? What object type is a pandas data frame?
2 Answers
Variable = ?
The variable set would be equal to a pandas.core.frame.DataFrame object.
Format?
The pandas.core.frame.DataFrame format is a collection of numpy ndarrays, dicts, series, arrays or list-like structures that make up a 2 dimensional (typically) tabular data structure.
Pandas Object Type?
A pandas.core.frame.DataFrame object is an organized collection of list like structures containing multiple data types.
Comments
The function pandas.read_sql returns a DataFrame.
The type of a DataFrame in pandas is pandas.core.frame.DataFrame.
