How would I go about converting a .csv to an .arrow file without loading it all into memory?

Question

I found a similar question here: Read CSV with PyArrow

In this answer it references sys.stdin.buffer and sys.stdout.buffer, but I am not exactly sure how that would be used to write the .arrow file, or name it. I can't seem to find the exact information I am looking for in the docs for pyarrow. My file will not have any nans, but it will have a timestamped index. The file is ~100 gb, so loading it into memory simply isn't an option. I tried changing the code, but as I assumed, the code ended up overwriting the previous file every loop.

***This is my first post. I would like to thank all the contributors who answered 99.9% of my other questions before I had even the asked them.

import sys

import pandas as pd
import pyarrow as pa

SPLIT_ROWS = 1     ### used one line chunks for a small test

def main():
    writer = None
    for split in pd.read_csv(sys.stdin.buffer, chunksize=SPLIT_ROWS):

        table = pa.Table.from_pandas(split)
        # Write out to file
        with pa.OSFile('test.arrow', 'wb') as sink:     ### no append mode yet
            with pa.RecordBatchFileWriter(sink, table.schema) as writer:
                writer.write_table(table)
    writer.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Below is the code I used in the command line

>cat data.csv | python test.py

Answer 1

As suggested by @Pace, you should consider moving the output file creation outside of the reading loop. Something like this:

import sys

import pandas as pd
import pyarrow as pa

SPLIT_ROWS = 1     ### used one line chunks for a small test

def main():
    # Write out to file
    with pa.OSFile('test.arrow', 'wb') as sink:     ### no append mode yet
        with pa.RecordBatchFileWriter(sink, table.schema) as writer:
            for split in pd.read_csv('data.csv', chunksize=SPLIT_ROWS):
                table = pa.Table.from_pandas(split)
                writer.write_table(table)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()        

You also don't have to use sys.stdin.buffer if you would prefer to specify specific input and output files. You could then just run the script as:

python test.py

Answer 2

Solution adapted from @Martin-Evans code:

Closed file after the for loop as suggested by @Pace

import sys

import pandas as pd
import pyarrow as pa

SPLIT_ROWS = 1000000

def main():
    schema = pa.Table.from_pandas(pd.read_csv('Data.csv',nrows=2)).schema 
    ### reads first two lines to define schema 

    with pa.OSFile('test.arrow', 'wb') as sink:
        with pa.RecordBatchFileWriter(sink, schema) as writer:            
            for split in pd.read_csv('Data.csv',chunksize=SPLIT_ROWS):
                table = pa.Table.from_pandas(split)
                writer.write_table(table)

            writer.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()