:mod:`memote.experimental.tabular`
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.. py:module:: memote.experimental.tabular

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   Modules related to reading and writing files.

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Module Contents
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Functions
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   memote.experimental.tabular.read_tabular


.. function:: read_tabular(filename, dtype_conversion=None)

   Read a tabular data file which can be CSV, TSV, XLS or XLSX.


   :Parameters:

       **filename** : str or pathlib.Path
           The full file path. May be a compressed file.

       **dtype_conversion** : dict
           Column names as keys and corresponding type for loading the data.
           Please take a look at the `pandas documentation
           <https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/io.html#specifying-column-data-types>`__
           for detailed explanations.

   :Returns:

       pandas.DataFrame
           The data table.













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