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+# Copyright 2018-2021 Faculty Science Limited
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import pandas
+
+from faculty.session import get_session
+from faculty.context import get_context
+from faculty.clients.object import ObjectClient
+from faculty.datasets import transfer
+
+
+def read_csv(project_path, project_id=None, *args, **kwargs):
+    """Read a CSV file from a project's datasets as a pandas DataFrame.
+
+    Requires pandas to be installed.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    project_path : str
+        The path of the CSV file in the project's datasets to read.
+    project_id : str, optional
+        The project to get the CSV file from. You need to have access to this
+        project for it to work. Defaults to the project set by
+        FACULTY_PROJECT_ID in your environment.
+    *args
+        Additional positional arguments to pass to ``pandas.read_csv``.
+    **kwargs
+        Additional keyword arguments to pass to ``pandas.read_csv``.
+    """
+
+    project_id = project_id or get_context().project_id
+
+    session = get_session()
+    url = session.service_url(ObjectClient.SERVICE_NAME)
+    object_client = ObjectClient(url, session)
+
+    presigned_url = object_client.presign_download(project_id, project_path)
+
+    return pandas.read_csv(presigned_url, *args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def to_csv(dataframe, project_path, project_id=None, *args, **kwargs):
+    """Write a pandas DataFrame to a CSV file in a project's datasets.
+
+    Requires pandas to be installed.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    dataframe : pandas.DataFrame
+        The DataFrame to write.
+    project_path : str
+        The path in the project's datasets to write to.
+    project_id : str, optional
+        The project to write the CSV file to. You need to have access to this
+        project for it to work. Defaults to the project set by
+        FACULTY_PROJECT_ID in your environment.
+    *args
+        Additional positional arguments to pass to ``pandas.DataFrame.to_csv``.
+    **kwargs
+        Additional keyword arguments to pass to ``pandas.DataFrame.to_csv``.
+    """
+
+    project_id = project_id or get_context().project_id
+
+    session = get_session()
+    url = session.service_url(ObjectClient.SERVICE_NAME)
+    object_client = ObjectClient(url, session)
+
+    content = dataframe.to_csv(path_or_buf=None, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    transfer.upload(
+        object_client, project_id, project_path, content.encode("utf-8")
+    )