Dataframe API standard

This repository contains documents, tooling and other content related to the API standard for dataframes, and the dataframe interchange protocol.

Dataframe API standard (draft)

This API is draft and under development, and moving towards an RFC status where wider input from authors of dataframe and dataframe-consuming libraries will be solicited. Those authors are the primary audience for this API, rather than end users. Relevant content and links:

• Dataframe API standard documentation

Dataframe interchange protocol

This protocol is released and the specification should be considered stable. It has implementations in multiple dataframe libraries (Pandas, cuDF, Modin, Vaex at least). It may be extended and receive other necessary tweaks for things discovered in the process of being adopted by a wider set of libraries. Relevant content and links:

• Dataframe interchange protocol documentation
• Issue tracker: interchange-protocol label in this repo
• Request For Comments (RFC) for the dataframe interchange protocol (blog post)