About Python Connector for Snowflake

Access Snowflake from Python applications to perform create, read, update, and delete operations on stored data.

Python Connector for Snowflake is a reliable connectivity solution for accessing the Snowflake data cloud from Python applications to perform create, read, update, and delete operations on stored data. The solution fully implements the Python DB API 2.0 specification and is distributed as a wheel package for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

Python Connector for Snowflake Features

  • Standard SQL Syntax - The connector fully supports the Snowflake data types and standard SQL syntax, including functions, operators, and conditional expressions.
  • High Performance - The connector supports connection pooling and local caching of data to increase the access speed. It also lets you submit multiple update statements to the data warehouse for processing as a batch to improve execution time.
  • Platform Support - The Python connector is available for Windows and Windows Server (32-bit and 64-bit).
  • Unicode-Compliant Connector - The Unicode-compliant connector lets you retrieve and update multilingual data, regardless of its character encoding (Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and more) in any language environment.
  • Data Types Support - The connector supports all Snowflake data types and Python data types. It offers additional options to control data type mapping between the Snowflake data types and Python data types.