# Paste in a table

Acquire / memory

take a table from memory or the clipboard

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/paste-in-a-table>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet; it would live in Brightfield's view. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#paste-in-a-table)

## Variants

- Paste from the clipboard: Parse the system clipboard's contents as a table.
- Read a table from in-memory objects: Take a table from data a program already holds, such as an Arrow table, a data frame or a dictionary of arrays.

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 86.2% of 312 rows (exact class, version 2).

- Ibis: [`InMemoryTable`](https://github.com/ibis-project/ibis/blob/05d2b293344e86cb41c1a426071734f7e270335a/ibis/expr/operations/relations.py) (read 2026-09-27)
- Polars: [`Construct a frame from in-memory objects (family)`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/functions.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Polars: [`scan_arrow_c_stream`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/io.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`open-syspaste`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/features/open_syspaste.py#L18) (read 2026-09-23)
- Yggdrasil Decision Forests: [`Dict of numpy array`](https://github.com/google/yggdrasil-decision-forests/blob/0a54b57c95ff0cf42ecf0310ace0513a4f32cb65/yggdrasil_decision_forests/port/python/ydf/dataset/io/numpy_io.py) (read 2026-09-27)
- Yggdrasil Decision Forests: [`Pandas dataframe`](https://github.com/google/yggdrasil-decision-forests/blob/0a54b57c95ff0cf42ecf0310ace0513a4f32cb65/yggdrasil_decision_forests/port/python/ydf/dataset/io/pandas_io.py) (read 2026-09-27)
- Yggdrasil Decision Forests: [`Polars DataFrame`](https://github.com/google/yggdrasil-decision-forests/blob/0a54b57c95ff0cf42ecf0310ace0513a4f32cb65/yggdrasil_decision_forests/port/python/ydf/dataset/io/polars_io.py) (read 2026-09-27)
- Yggdrasil Decision Forests: [`PyGrain DataLoader/Dataset`](https://github.com/google/yggdrasil-decision-forests/blob/0a54b57c95ff0cf42ecf0310ace0513a4f32cb65/yggdrasil_decision_forests/port/python/ydf/dataset/io/pygrain_io.py) (read 2026-09-27)
- Yggdrasil Decision Forests: [`TensorFlow Dataset`](https://github.com/google/yggdrasil-decision-forests/blob/0a54b57c95ff0cf42ecf0310ace0513a4f32cb65/yggdrasil_decision_forests/port/python/ydf/dataset/io/tensorflow_io.py) (read 2026-09-27)
- Yggdrasil Decision Forests: [`Xarray`](https://github.com/google/yggdrasil-decision-forests/blob/0a54b57c95ff0cf42ecf0310ace0513a4f32cb65/yggdrasil_decision_forests/port/python/ydf/dataset/io/xarray_io.py) (read 2026-09-27)
- Yggdrasil Decision Forests: [`create_vertical_dataset`](https://github.com/google/yggdrasil-decision-forests/blob/0a54b57c95ff0cf42ecf0310ace0513a4f32cb65/yggdrasil_decision_forests/port/python/ydf/dataset/dataset.py) (read 2026-09-27)