Easiest way to read csv files with multiprocessing in Pandas

Question

Here is my question.
With bunch of .csv files(or other files). Pandas is an easy way to read them and save into Dataframe format. But when the amount of files was huge, I want to read the files with multiprocessing to save some time.

My early attempt

I manually divide the files into different path. Using severally:

os.chdir("./task_1")
files = os.listdir('.')
files.sort()
for file in files:
    filename,extname = os.path.splitext(file)
    if extname == '.csv':
        f = pd.read_csv(file)
        df = (f.VALUE.as_matrix()).reshape(75,90)   

And then combine them.

How to run them with pool to achieve my problem?
Any advice would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Using Pool:

import os
import pandas as pd 
from multiprocessing import Pool

# wrap your csv importer in a function that can be mapped
def read_csv(filename):
    'converts a filename to a pandas dataframe'
    return pd.read_csv(filename)


def main():

    # get a list of file names
    files = os.listdir('.')
    file_list = [filename for filename in files if filename.split('.')[1]=='csv']

    # set up your pool
    with Pool(processes=8) as pool: # or whatever your hardware can support

        # have your pool map the file names to dataframes
        df_list = pool.map(read_csv, file_list)

        # reduce the list of dataframes to a single dataframe
        combined_df = pd.concat(df_list, ignore_index=True)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()