Connecting to and querying Snowflake from Python

This text provides a step-by-step guide on how to read data from a Snowflake warehouse directly into Python. The four main steps covered are installing the Snowflake Connector for Python, authenticating and connecting to your Snowflake data warehouse, running a query, and reading data from a Snowflake query into a pandas DataFrame. It also briefly mentions alternative methods such as SQLAlchemy and pandas.read_sql. The guide assumes that the reader has a working Python 3.6+ installation and provides instructions on how to check this.