Read json files in pandas dataframe - pandas

Question

I have large pandas dataframe (17 000 rows) with a filepath in each row associated with a specific json file. For each row I want to read the json file content and extract the content into a new dataframe.
The dataframe looks something like this:
0 /home/user/processed/config1.json
1 /home/user/processed/config2.json
2 /home/user/processed/config3.json
3 /home/user/processed/config4.json
4 /home/user/processed/config5.json
... ...
16995 /home/user/processed/config16995.json
16996 /home/user/processed/config16996.json
16997 /home/user/processed/config16997.json
16998 /home/user/processed/config16998.json
16999 /home/user/processed/config16999.json
What is the most efficient way to do this?
I believe a simple for-loop might be best suited here?
import json
json_content = []
for row in df:
with open(row) as file:
json_content.append(json.load(file))
result = pd.DataFrame(json_content)

Answer 1

Generally, I'd try with iterrows() function (as a first hit to improve efficiency).
Implementation could possibly look like that:
import json
import pandas as pd
json_content = []
for row in df.iterrows():
with open(row) as file:
json_content.append(json.load(file))
result = pd.Series(json_content)

Answer 2

Possible solution is the following:
# pip install pandas
import pandas as pd
#convert column with paths to list, where: : - all rows, 0 - first column
paths = df.iloc[:, 0].tolist()
all_dfs = []
for path in paths:
df = pd.read_json(path, encoding='utf-8')
all_dfs.append(df)
Each df in all_dfs can be accessed individually or in loop by index like all_dfs[0], all_dfs[1] and etc.
If you wish you can merge all_dfs into the single dataframe.
dfs = df.concat(all_dfs, axis=1)