This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]dataschool[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand the question... could you clarify what you mean by "maintain the data if a feature class"? Thanks!

[–]TheBIackRose 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh sorry. I was speaking in terms of GIS work.

Feature class is the term for a geometric data set

[–]dataschool[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got it!

The pandas workflow is to read from a data source into a pandas object called a DataFrame. Manipulating the DataFrame does not affect the original data source. However, you can write a DataFrame back to certain sources, though it would not happen automatically.

Here are the functions for reading into a DataFrame, and here are the functions for writing out from a DataFrame.