24. Other File Formats

Other File Formats

The types of files you mastered in this lesson are the ones you'll interact with for the vast majority of your wrangling projects in the future. Again, these were:

• Flat files (e.g. CSV and TSV)
• HTML files
• JSON files
• TXT files
• Relational database files

Additional, less common file formats include:

• Excel files
• Pickle files
• HDF5 files
• SAS files
• STATA files

pandas has functions to read (and write, to most of them) these files. Also, you now have the foundational understanding of gathering and file formats in general, so learning these additional formats won't be too hard if you need them.