Read postgres database table into pandas dataframe

pandas_postgres.py

import pandas as pd
from sqlalchemy import create_engine

# follows django database settings format, replace with your own settings
DATABASES = {
    'production':{
        'NAME': 'dbname',
        'USER': 'user',
        'PASSWORD': 'pass',
        'HOST': 'rdsname.clqksfdibzsj.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com',
        'PORT': 5432,
    },
}

# choose the database to use
db = DATABASES['production']

# construct an engine connection string
engine_string = "postgresql+psycopg2://{user}:{password}@{host}:{port}/{database}".format(
    user = db['USER'],
    password = db['PASSWORD'],
    host = db['HOST'],
    port = db['PORT'],
    database = db['NAME'],
)

# create sqlalchemy engine
engine = create_engine(engine_string)

# read a table from database into pandas dataframe, replace "tablename" with your table name
df = pd.read_sql_table('tablename',engine)