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Convert CSV to source code

Drop a CSV, get an inline data structure you can paste straight into a script. Pick pandas, Polars, R, PHP, or Ruby — numbers stay numeric, strings are escaped, and empty cells become the right null for each language.

01 · How it works

Three steps, then done.

Pick a language, paste or upload your CSV, and copy the generated literal. Everything runs in your browser — your data never touches a server.

01

Load your CSV

Paste rows in directly or drop a file. The parser reads your headers and infers which columns are numeric, so the output uses the right literal types.

02

Choose a language

Switch between pandas, Polars, R, PHP, and Ruby. pandas and Polars emit a DataFrame from a dict of columns; R builds a data.frame; PHP and Ruby produce a list of rows.

03

Copy and paste

Grab the generated code and drop it into your notebook or script. No CSV file to ship, no loader to write — the data is inlined and ready to run.

02 · Why ours

Why generate code instead ofshipping the CSV

Inlining a small dataset as source removes a moving part. No file path to get wrong, no read_csv call to configure, no encoding surprises — just a literal that runs the same everywhere.

  • 01

    Fixtures and tests

    Paste a known dataset straight into a unit test or a notebook cell. No tmp files, no fixtures directory, no I/O that can fail in CI.

  • 02

    Correct types, not strings

    Plain numeric cells are emitted as bare numbers so pandas, Polars, and R see a numeric column — not text you have to cast after loading.

  • 03

    Escaping handled

    Quotes, backslashes, tabs, and newlines are escaped per language. PHP keys and values use single-quote rules; pandas, R, and Ruby use double-quote rules.

  • 04

    Private by default

    Generation happens in your browser with client-side JavaScript. Your rows are never uploaded, logged, or stored anywhere.

"A small dataset belongs in the code, not in a file the code has to go find."
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03 · FAQ

to code questions.

Which languages can I generate?
Five dialects: a pandas DataFrame, a Polars DataFrame, an R data.frame, a PHP array of associative arrays, and a Ruby array of hashes. Pick one from the language option; pandas is the default.
A cell is emitted as a bare, unquoted number only when its raw value is a plain numeric literal — no currency symbols, percent signs, or thousands separators. Everything else is written as a properly escaped quoted string, so 007 or $9.99 stay strings.
Empty cells map to each language's idiomatic null: None in pandas and Polars, NA in R, null in PHP, and nil in Ruby. They are never coerced into 0 or an empty string.
Yes. pandas, Polars, R, and Ruby strings use double-quote escaping (backslash, quote, newline, tab); PHP uses single-quote escaping. The output is valid source you can run without hand-fixing.
No. The whole conversion runs locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, so you can safely paste sensitive or proprietary data.