Import multiple csv files into pandas and concatenate into one DataFrame

Question

I would like to read several csv files from a directory into pandas and concatenate them into one big DataFrame. I have not been able to figure it out though. Here is what I

Answer 1

one liner using map, but if you'd like to specify additional args, you could do:

import pandas as pd
import glob
import functools

df = pd.concat(map(functools.partial(pd.read_csv, sep='|', compression=None), 
                    glob.glob("data/*.csv")))

Note: map by itself does not let you supply additional args.