https://github.com/toucantoco/fastexcel
A Python wrapper around calamine
https://github.com/toucantoco/fastexcel
arrow pandas polars python rust
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A Python wrapper around calamine
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/toucantoco/fastexcel
- Owner: ToucanToco
- License: mit
- Created: 2022-10-06T10:08:35.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-30T08:52:05.000Z (29 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-30T09:16:14.416Z (29 days ago)
- Topics: arrow, pandas, polars, python, rust
- Language: Rust
- Homepage: http://fastexcel.toucantoco.dev/
- Size: 46.6 MB
- Stars: 149
- Watchers: 9
- Forks: 10
- Open Issues: 18
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# `fastexcel`
A fast excel file reader for Python, written in Rust.
Based on [`calamine`](https://github.com/tafia/calamine) and [Apache Arrow](https://arrow.apache.org/).
Docs available [here](https://fastexcel.toucantoco.dev/).
## Dev setup
### Prerequisites
Python>=3.9 and a recent Rust toolchain must be installed on your machine. `cargo` must be available in your `PATH`.
### First setup
On the very first time you setup the project, you'll need to create a virtualenv and install the necessary tools:
```console
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
(.venv) make dev-setup
```
This will also set up [pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com/).
### Installing the project in dev mode
In order to install the project in dev mode (for local tests for example), use `make dev-install`.
This will compile the wheel (in debug mode) and install it. It will then be available in your venv.
### Installing the project in prod mode
This is required for profiling, as dev mode wheels are much slower. `make prod-install` will compile the project
in release mode and install it in your local venv, overriding previous dev installs.
### Linting and formatting
The Makefile provides the `lint` and `format` extras to ease this.
## Running the tests
`make test`
## Running the benchmarks
### Speed benchmark
`make benchmarks`
### Memory benchmark
`mprof run -T 0.01 python python/tests/benchmarks/memory.py python/tests/benchmarks/fixtures/plain_data.xls`
## Building the docs
`make doc`
## Creating a release
1. Create a PR containing a commit that only updates the version in `Cargo.toml`.
2. Once it is approved, squash and merge it into main.
3. Tag the squashed commit, and push it.
4. The `release` GitHub action will take care of the rest.
## Dev tips
* Use `cargo check` to verify that your rust code compiles, no need to go through `maturin` every time
* `cargo clippy` = 💖
* Careful with arrow constructors, they tend to allocate a lot
* [`mprof`](https://github.com/pythonprofilers/memory_profiler) and `time` go a long way for perf checks,
no need to go fancy right from the start