How to split a csv into multiple csv files using Dask

Question

How to split a csv file into multiple files using Dask?

The bellow code seems to write to one file only which takes a long time to write the full thing. I believe writing to multiple files will be faster.

import dask.dataframe as ddf
import dask
file_path = "file_name.csv"
df   = ddf.read_csv(file_path)
futs = df.to_csv(r"*.csv", compute=False)
_, l = dask.compute(futs, df.size)

Answer 1

I suspect that when you read df you have df.npartitions is just 1 .

import dask.dataframe as dd

file_path = "file_name.csv"
df = dd.read_csv(file_path)
# set how many file you would like to have
# in this case 10
df = df.repartition(npartitions=10)
df.to_csv("file_*.csv")

But as far as I can see it's not faster.