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<h1>snowflake.snowpark.DataFrameReader.with_metadata<a class="headerlink" href="#snowflake-snowpark-dataframereader-with-metadata" title="Permalink to this heading" data-nosnippet="">¶</a></h1>
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DataFrameReader.with_metadata(*metadata_cols: Iterable[Union[<a class="reference internal" href="snowflake.snowpark.Column.html#snowflake.snowpark.Column" title="snowflake.snowpark.column.Column">Column</a>, str]]) → <a class="reference internal" href="snowflake.snowpark.DataFrameReader.html#snowflake.snowpark.DataFrameReader" title="snowflake.snowpark.dataframe_reader.DataFrameReader">DataFrameReader</a><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowpark-python/blob/release-v1.8.0/src/snowflake/snowpark/dataframe_reader.py#L335-L350">[source]</a><a class="headerlink" href="#snowflake.snowpark.DataFrameReader.with_metadata" title="Permalink to this definition" data-nosnippet="">¶</a></dt>
<dd>Define the metadata columns that need to be selected from stage files.
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<dd class="field-odd">a <a class="reference internal" href="snowflake.snowpark.DataFrameReader.html#snowflake.snowpark.DataFrameReader" title="snowflake.snowpark.DataFrameReader"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate">DataFrameReader</code></a> instance with metadata columns to read.
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See also
<a class="reference external" href="https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/querying-metadata">https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/querying-metadata</a>
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snowflake.snowpark.DataFrameReader.with_metadata¶