Converting Dask Scalar to integer value (or save it to text file)

Question

I have calculated using dask by

from dask import dataframe
all_data = dataframe.read_csv(path) 
total_sum = all_data.account_balance.sum()


        

Answer 1

.compute() does indeed bring you a real number, as you can see in this example:

In [18]: import dask.dataframe as dd

In [19]: d = dd.from_pandas(pd.DataFrame({'a': [3,3,3,3]}), npartitions=2)

In [20]: d.a.sum().compute()
Out[20]: 12