Tabular File Formats

CSV Files

ReadOptions([use_threads, block_size, …])	Options for reading CSV files.
ParseOptions([delimiter, quote_char, …])	Options for parsing CSV files.
ConvertOptions([check_utf8, column_types, …])	Options for converting CSV data.
read_csv(input_file[, read_options, …])	Read a Table from a stream of CSV data.
open_csv(input_file[, read_options, …])	Open a streaming reader of CSV data.
CSVStreamingReader()	An object that reads record batches incrementally from a CSV file.

Feather Files

read_feather(source[, columns, use_threads, …])	Read a pandas.DataFrame from Feather format.
read_table(source[, columns, memory_map])	Read a pyarrow.Table from Feather format
write_feather(df, dest[, compression, …])	Write a pandas.DataFrame to Feather format.

JSON Files

ReadOptions([use_threads, block_size])	Options for reading JSON files.
ParseOptions([explicit_schema, …])	Options for parsing JSON files.
read_json(input_file[, read_options, …])	Read a Table from a stream of JSON data.

Parquet Files

ParquetDataset([path_or_paths, filesystem, …])	Encapsulates details of reading a complete Parquet dataset possibly consisting of multiple files and partitions in subdirectories.
ParquetFile(source[, metadata, …])	Reader interface for a single Parquet file.
ParquetWriter(where, schema[, filesystem, …])	Class for incrementally building a Parquet file for Arrow tables.
read_table(source[, columns, use_threads, …])	Read a Table from Parquet format
read_metadata(where[, memory_map])	Read FileMetadata from footer of a single Parquet file.
read_pandas(source[, columns, use_threads, …])	Read a Table from Parquet format, also reading DataFrame index values if known in the file metadata
read_schema(where[, memory_map])	Read effective Arrow schema from Parquet file metadata.
write_metadata(schema, where[, …])	Write metadata-only Parquet file from schema.
write_table(table, where[, row_group_size, …])	Write a Table to Parquet format.
write_to_dataset(table, root_path[, …])	Wrapper around parquet.write_table for writing a Table to Parquet format by partitions.

ORC Files

ORCFile(source)

Reader interface for a single ORC file