Pandas - pandas.DataFrame.from_csv vs pandas.read_csv

Question

What\'s the difference between:

pandas.DataFrame.from_csv, doc link: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.DataFrame.from_csv.htm

Answer 1

Another difference is that pandas.read_csv is 46x to 490x as fast as pandas.DataFrame.from_csv (in my testing).

I tested it on Python 3.4.4 and pandas 0.19.2 on Windows on my proprietary csv file.