Parquet is one leading file format used in Hadoop ecosystem which you might came across one day.

In order to include it in your Python scripts you will to know how to read it.

Pandas library has a method that will help you with that.

Here is how to read a DataFrame in Parquet format.

# Import the Pandas library
import pandas as pd

# We read the dataframe from a parquet format
pd.read_parquet("my_df.parquet")

Here you are! You now know how to read a DataFrame in Parquet format!

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