pandas 的大而持久的 DataFrame
问题说明
作为长期 SAS 用户，我正在探索切换到 python 和 pandas.
I am exploring switching to python and pandas as a long-time SAS user.
然而，今天在运行一些测试时，我很惊讶 python 在尝试 pandas.read_csv() 一个 128mb 的 csv 文件时内存不足.它有大约 200,000 行和 200 列主要是数字数据.
However, when running some tests today, I was surprised that python ran out of memory when trying to pandas.read_csv() a 128mb csv file. It had about 200,000 rows and 200 columns of mostly numeric data.
使用 SAS，我可以将 csv 文件导入 SAS 数据集，它可以和我的硬盘一样大.
With SAS, I can import a csv file into a SAS dataset and it can be as large as my hard drive.
pandas 中有类似的东西吗?
我经常处理大文件，但无法访问分布式计算网络.
I regularly work with large files and do not have access to a distributed computing network.
正确答案
原则上不应该用完内存，但是目前read_csv对大文件存在内存问题，原因是一些复杂的Python 内部问题(这个很模糊，但是早就知道了:http://github.com/pydata/pandas/问题/407).
In principle it shouldn't run out of memory, but there are currently memory problems with read_csv on large files caused by some complex Python internal issues (this is vague but it's been known for a long time: http://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/407).
At the moment there isn't a perfect solution (here's a tedious one: you could transcribe the file row-by-row into a pre-allocated NumPy array or memory-mapped file--np.mmap), but it's one I'll be working on in the near future. Another solution is to read the file in smaller pieces (use iterator=True, chunksize=1000) then concatenate then with pd.concat. The problem comes in when you pull the entire text file into memory in one big slurp.
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