PyIceberg
Last updated Oct 1, 2026 Below is an example of using PyIceberg ↗︎ to connect to Basin Catalog.
Prerequisites
- Sign up for a Cloudflare account ↗︎.
- Create an R2 bucket and enable the data catalog.
- Create an R2 API token with both R2 and data catalog permissions.
- Install the PyIceberg ↗︎ and PyArrow ↗︎ libraries.
Example usage
import pyarrow as pa
from pyiceberg.catalog.rest import RestCatalog
from pyiceberg.exceptions import NamespaceAlreadyExistsError
# Define catalog connection details (replace variables)
WAREHOUSE = "<WAREHOUSE>"
TOKEN = "<TOKEN>"
CATALOG_URI = "<CATALOG_URI>"
# Connect to Basin Catalog
catalog = RestCatalog(
name="my_catalog",
warehouse=WAREHOUSE,
uri=CATALOG_URI,
token=TOKEN,
)
# Create default namespace
catalog.create_namespace("default")
# Create simple PyArrow table
df = pa.table({
"id": [1, 2, 3],
"name": ["Alice", "Bob", "Charlie"],
})
# Create an Iceberg table
test_table = ("default", "my_table")
table = catalog.create_table(
test_table,
schema=df.schema,
)
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