polars.LazyFrame.slice

LazyFrame.slice(
    offset: int,
    length: int | None = None,
) → LazyFrame

Get a slice of this DataFrame.

engine:In MemoryStreamingDistributed

Parameters:

offset

Start index. Negative indexing is supported.

length

Length of the slice. If set to None, all rows starting at the offset will be selected.

Examples

>>> lf = pl.LazyFrame(
...     {
...         "a": ["x", "y", "z"],
...         "b": [1, 3, 5],
...         "c": [2, 4, 6],
...     }
... )
>>> lf.slice(1, 2).collect()
shape: (2, 3)
┌─────┬─────┬─────┐
│ a   ┆ b   ┆ c   │
│ --- ┆ --- ┆ --- │
│ str ┆ i64 ┆ i64 │
╞═════╪═════╪═════╡
│ y   ┆ 3   ┆ 4   │
│ z   ┆ 5   ┆ 6   │
└─────┴─────┴─────┘