pyarrow.ipc.open_file

pyarrow.ipc.open_file(source, footer_offset=None)

Create reader for Arrow file format

Parameters:

• source (bytes/buffer-like, pyarrow.NativeFile, or file-like Python object) – Either an in-memory buffer, or a readable file object
• footer_offset (int, default None) – If the file is embedded in some larger file, this is the byte offset to the very end of the file data

Returns:

reader (RecordBatchFileReader)