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# pandas.Index.tofile

`Index.``tofile`(fid, sep="", format="%s")

  Write array to a file as text or binary (default).

  Data is always written in ‘C’ order, independent of the order of a. The data produced by this method can be recovered using the function fromfile().

  Parameters : | fid : file or str An open file object, or a string containing a filename. sep : str Separator between array items for text output. If “” (empty), a binary file is written, equivalent to `file.write(a.tostring())`. format : str Format string for text file output. Each entry in the array is formatted to text by first converting it to the closest Python type, and then using “format” % item.

  Notes

  This is a convenience function for quick storage of array data. Information on endianness and precision is lost, so this method is not a good choice for files intended to archive data or transport data between machines with different endianness. Some of these problems can be overcome by outputting the data as text files, at the expense of speed and file size.

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