low more flexible operations like searching / selecting subsets of the data. index : bool, default True Write DataFrame index as a column. append : bool, default True Append the input data to the existing. data_columns : list of columns, or True, default None List of columns to create as indexed data columns for on-disk queries, or True to use all columns. By default only the axes of the object are indexed. See `here `__. min_itemsize : dict of columns that specify minimum str sizes nan_rep : str to use as str nan representation chunksize : size to chunk the writing expectedrows : expected TOTAL row size of this table encoding : default None, provide an encoding for str dropna : bool, default False, optional Do not write an ALL nan row to the store settable by the option 'io.hdf.dropna_table'. Notes ----- Does *not* check if data being appended overlaps with existing data in the table, so be careful Examples -------- >>> df1 = pd.DataFrame([[1, 2], [3, 4]], columns=['A', 'B']) >>> store = pd.HDFStore("store.h5", 'w') # doctest: +SKIP >>> store.put('data', df1, format='table') # doctest: +SKIP >>> df2 = pd.DataFrame([[5, 6], [7, 8]], columns=['A', 'B']) >>> store.append('data', df2) # doctest: +SKIP >>> store.close() # doctest: +SKIP A B 0 1 2 1 3 4 0 5 6 1 7 8 Nz>columns is not a supported keyword in append, try data_columnsz