From ca786ca117e397e1accbb8e8f4c56402679eadd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephan Hoyer Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:30:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: mention other packages in IO docs (for now, just xray for netCDF) As discussed in #5487. This would also be a nice place to mention other packages that connect the pandas DataFrames with other file formats. Right now, the only one I can think of off-hand is `root_pandas` (#9378, CC @ibab), but I'm sure there are more. --- doc/source/io.rst | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/io.rst b/doc/source/io.rst index a6c702e1cd874..52c7402594c60 100644 --- a/doc/source/io.rst +++ b/doc/source/io.rst @@ -3996,6 +3996,24 @@ whether imported ``Categorical`` variables are ordered. a ``Categorial`` with string categories for the values that are labeled and numeric categories for values with no label. +.. _io.other: + +Other file formats +------------------ + +pandas itself only supports IO with a limited set of file formats that map +cleanly to its tabular data model. For reading and writing other file formats +into and from pandas, we recommend these packages from the broader community. + +netCDF +~~~~~~ + +xray_ provides data structures inspired by the pandas DataFrame for working +with multi-dimensional datasets, with a focus on the netCDF file format and +easy conversion to and from pandas. + +.. _xray: http://xray.readthedocs.org/ + .. _io.perf: Performance Considerations