Create a pandas DataFrame from generator?

You certainly can construct a pandas.DataFrame() from a generator of tuples, as of version 0.19 (and probably earlier). Don’t use .from_records(); just use the constructor, for example:

import pandas as pd
someGenerator = ( (x, chr(x)) for x in range(48,127) )
someDf = pd.DataFrame(someGenerator)

Produces:

type(someDf) #pandas.core.frame.DataFrame

someDf.dtypes
#0     int64
#1    object
#dtype: object

someDf.tail(10)
#      0  1
#69  117  u
#70  118  v
#71  119  w
#72  120  x
#73  121  y
#74  122  z
#75  123  {
#76  124  |
#77  125  }
#78  126  ~

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