Import multiple csv files into pandas and concatenate into one DataFrame

Question

I would like to read several csv files from a directory into pandas and concatenate them into one big DataFrame. I have not been able to figure it out though. Here is what I

Answer 1

If the multiple csv files are zipped, you may use zipfile to read all and concatenate as below:

import zipfile
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

ziptrain = zipfile.ZipFile('yourpath/yourfile.zip')

train=[]

for f in range(0,len(ziptrain.namelist())):
    if (f == 0):
        train = pd.read_csv(ziptrain.open(ziptrain.namelist()[f]))
    else:
        my_df = pd.read_csv(ziptrain.open(ziptrain.namelist()[f]))
        train = (pd.DataFrame(np.concatenate((train,my_df),axis=0), 
                          columns=list(my_df.columns.values)))