polars.read_avro

polars.read_avro(
    source: str | Path | IO[bytes] | bytes,
    *,
    columns: list[int] | list[str] | None = None,
    n_rows: int | None = None,
) → DataFrame

Read into a DataFrame from Apache Avro format.

Parameters:

source

Path to a file or a file-like object (by “file-like object” we refer to objects that have a read() method, such as a file handler like the builtin open function, or a BytesIO instance). For file-like objects, the stream position may not be updated accordingly after reading.

columns

Columns to select. Accepts a list of column indices (starting at zero) or a list of column names.

n_rows

Stop reading from Apache Avro file after reading n_rows.

Returns:

DataFrame