# mx.io.CSVIter¶

## Description¶

Returns the CSV file iterator.

In this function, the data_shape parameter is used to set the shape of each line of the input data. If a row in an input file is 1,2,3,4,5,6 and data_shape is (3,2), that row will be reshaped, yielding the array [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]] of shape (3,2).

By default, the CSVIter has round_batch parameter set to True. So, if batch_size is 3 and there are 4 total rows in CSV file, 2 more examples are consumed at the first round. If reset function is called after first round, the call is ignored and remaining examples are returned in the second round.

If one wants all the instances in the second round after calling reset, make sure to set round_batch to False.

If data_csv = 'data/' is set, then all the files in this directory will be read.

reset() is expected to be called only after a complete pass of data.

By default, the CSVIter parses all entries in the data file as float32 data type, if dtype argument is set to be ‘int32’ or ‘int64’ then CSVIter will parse all entries in the file as int32 or int64 data type accordingly.

Example:

// Contents of CSV file data/data.csv.
1,2,3
2,3,4
3,4,5
4,5,6

// Creates a CSVIter with batch_size=2 and default round_batch=True.
CSVIter = mx.io.CSVIter(data_csv = 'data/data.csv', data_shape = (3,),
batch_size = 2)

// Two batches read from the above iterator are as follows:
[[ 1.  2.  3.]
[ 2.  3.  4.]]
[[ 3.  4.  5.]
[ 4.  5.  6.]]

// Creates a CSVIter with default round_batch set to True.
CSVIter = mx.io.CSVIter(data_csv = 'data/data.csv', data_shape = (3,),
batch_size = 3)

// Two batches read from the above iterator in the first pass are as follows:
[[1.  2.  3.]
[2.  3.  4.]
[3.  4.  5.]]

[[4.  5.  6.]
[1.  2.  3.]
[2.  3.  4.]]

// Now, reset method is called.
CSVIter.reset()

// Batch read from the above iterator in the second pass is as follows:
[[ 3.  4.  5.]
[ 4.  5.  6.]
[ 1.  2.  3.]]

// Creates a CSVIter with round_batch=False.
CSVIter = mx.io.CSVIter(data_csv = 'data/data.csv', data_shape = (3,),
batch_size = 3, round_batch=False)

// Contents of two batches read from the above iterator in both passes, after calling
// reset method before second pass, is as follows:
[[1.  2.  3.]
[2.  3.  4.]
[3.  4.  5.]]

[[4.  5.  6.]
[2.  3.  4.]
[3.  4.  5.]]

// Creates a 'CSVIter' with dtype='int32'
CSVIter = mx.io.CSVIter(data_csv = 'data/data.csv', data_shape = (3,),
batch_size = 3, round_batch=False, dtype='int32')

// Contents of two batches read from the above iterator in both passes, after calling
// reset method before second pass, is as follows:
[[1  2  3]
[2  3  4]
[3  4  5]]

[[4  5  6]
[2  3  4]
[3  4  5]]


## Usage¶

mx.io.CSVIter(...)


## Arguments¶

Argument

Description

data.csv

string, required.

The input CSV file or a directory path.

data.shape

Shape(tuple), required.

The shape of one example.

label.csv

string, optional, default=’NULL’.

The input CSV file or a directory path. If NULL, all labels will be returned as 0.

label.shape

Shape(tuple), optional, default=[1].

The shape of one label.

batch.size

int (non-negative), required.

Batch size.

round.batch

boolean, optional, default=1.

Whether to use round robin to handle overflow batch or not.

prefetch.buffer

long (non-negative), optional, default=4.

Maximum number of batches to prefetch.

ctx

{‘cpu’, ‘gpu’},optional, default=’gpu’.

Context data loader optimized for.

dtype

{None, ‘float16’, ‘float32’, ‘float64’, ‘int32’, ‘int64’, ‘int8’, ‘uint8’},optional, default=’None’.

Output data type. None means no change.

## Value¶

iter` The result mx.dataiter

Link to Source Code: http://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/1.6.0/src/io/iter_csv.cc#L308