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Parquet

It is quite simple to read a parquet file using the {py:func}~datafusion.context.SessionContext.read_parquet function.

from datafusion import SessionContext

ctx = SessionContext()
df = ctx.read_parquet("file.parquet")

An alternative is to use {py:func}~datafusion.context.SessionContext.register_parquet

ctx.register_parquet("file", "file.parquet")
df = ctx.table("file")