Set worksheet contents using Pandas DataFrame

For my own project work, I’ve written a function that sets the contents of a worksheet using a Pandas DataFrame. While similar in behavior to the feature offered by the pgsheets package, it has additional features, especially the automatic chunking of DataFrame content to avoid the “API call limit” on large Google Sheet writes.

May I offer a pull request to gspread to add this functionality?

[burnash]

Thanks for the suggestion and for the PR. I do use Pandas myself although not in conjunction with gspread.

We try to stick to the single responsibility principle in developing this library. At its best, it should only contain functionality related to accessing data and managing spreadsheets. Although widely accepted and used, Pandas is still not a core Python package. I don’t see a reason why gspread should support DataFrames.

That being said, I really don’t want to discourage you. You can make your own package, import gspread, inherit and extend the functionality you need. You will own the DataFrames functionality and maintainers of gspread will have less code to support.

I also plan to rework the docs, and maybe put an examples / cookbook section. We have the ancient GitHub Wiki pages for the project with a Cookbook section listing an example of handling DataFrames. We can update example and a link to your future library if it does better handling of DataFrames.

[robin900]

Closing issue, as gspread-dataframe PyPI package has been in release for over a year now.