joinem provides a CLI for fast, flexbile concatenation of tabular data using polars

• Free software: MIT license
• Repository: https://github.com/mmore500/joinem
• Documentation: https://github.com/mmore500/joinem/blob/master/README.md

Install

python3 -m pip install joinem

Features

• Lazily streams I/O to expeditiously handle numerous large files.
• Supports CSV and parquet input files.
  • Due to current polars limitations, JSON and feather files are not supported.
  • Input formats may be mixed.
• Supports output to CSV, JSON, parquet, and feather file types.
• Allows mismatched columns and/or empty data files with --how diagonal and --how diagonal_relaxed.
• Provides a progress bar with --progress.

Example Usage

Pass input filenames via stdin, one filename per line.

find path/to/*.parquet path/to/*.csv | python3 -m joinem out.parquet

Output file type is inferred from the extension of the output file name. Supported output types are feather, JSON, parquet, and csv.

find -name '*.parquet' | python3 -m joinem out.json

Use --progress to show a progress bar.

ls -1 path/{*.csv,*.pqt} | python3 -m joinem out.csv --progress

If file columns may mismatch, use --how diagonal.

find path/to/ -name '*.csv' | python3 -m joinem out.csv --how diagonal

If some files may be empty, use --how diagonal_relaxed.

To run via Singularity/Apptainer,

ls -1 *.csv | singularity run docker://ghcr.io/mmore500/joinem out.feather

API

usage: __main__.py [-h] [--version] [--progress]
                   [--how {vertical,horizontal,diagonal,diagonal_relaxed}]
                   output_file

Concatenate CSV and/or parquet tabular data files.

positional arguments:
  output_file           Output file name

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  --progress            Show progress bar
  --how {vertical,horizontal,diagonal,diagonal_relaxed}
                        How to concatenate frames. See <https://docs.pola.rs/py-
                        polars/html/reference/api/polars.concat.html> for more information.

Provide input filenames via stdin. Example: find path/to/ -name '*.csv' | python3 -m joinem
-o out.csv

Citing

If joinem contributes to a scientific publication, please cite it as

Matthew Andres Moreno. (2024). mmore500/joinem. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10701182

@software{moreno2024joinem,
  author = {Matthew Andres Moreno},
  title = {mmore500/joinem},
  month = feb,
  year = 2024,
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.10701182},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10701182}
}

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