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What's the difference between:
pandas.DataFrame.from_csv, doc link: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.from_csv.html
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pandas.read_csv, doc link: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.io.parsers.read_csv.html
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It is preferable to use the more powerful pandas. read_csv() for most general purposes, but from_csv makes for an easy roundtrip to and from a file (the exact counterpart of to_csv), especially with a DataFrame of time series data.
The difference between read_csv() and read_table() is almost nothing. In fact, the same function is called by the source: read_csv() delimiter is a comma character. read_table() is a delimiter of tab \t .
read_csv is used to load a CSV file as a pandas dataframe. In this article, you will learn the different features of the read_csv function of pandas apart from loading the CSV file and the parameters which can be customized to get better output from the read_csv function.
There is no real difference (both are based on the same underlying function), but as noted in the comments, they have some different default values (index_col is 0 or None, parse_dates is True or False for read_csv and DataFrame.from_csv respectively) and read_csv supports more arguments (in from_csv they are just not passed through).
Apart from that, it is recommended to use pd.read_csv.DataFrame.from_csv exists merely for historical reasons and to keep backwards compatibility (plans are to deprecate it, see here), but all new features are only added to read_csv (as you can see in the much longer list of keyword arguments). Actually, this should be made more clear in the docs.
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