It would be great to have support within pandas for the MDF format. Something like mdfreader.
Comment From: gfyoung
@coppolajj : Thanks for the request! Personally haven't used the format, but seems interesting (discussion would be good though). Have a look at how we added support for pyarrow . That should give you an idea of how you might incorporate mdfreader.
Comment From: jreback
this is out of scope for pandas as it’s a pretty narrowly focused format the package you linked seems just fine in any event
Comment From: danielhrisca
You could also have a look at the alternative asammdf https://github.com/danielhrisca/asammdf http://asammdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/benchmarks.html
Comment From: jorisvandenbossche
Always welcome to add it to the ecosystem.rst page in the docs listing pandas-related or pandas-interfacing packages
Comment From: danielhrisca
Very nice. Thank you! MDF is a very popular format for automotive measurement systems.
Comment From: jayveesea
My thought was to support it like HDF5 and the others found in IO Tools via mdfreader (or I guess asammdf might work too). And I agree, it's very popular, matlab is able to read this format.