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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: laughingman7743

README.md

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+# PyAthena
+
+PyAthena is a Python [DB API 2.0 (PEP 249)](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/) client for [Amazon Athena](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html).
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+| Package | [![PyPI Version](https://badge.fury.io/py/pyathena.svg)](https://badge.fury.io/py/pyathena) [![Python Versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/PyAthena.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/PyAthena/) [![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/pyathena/month)](https://pepy.tech/project/pyathena) |
+| CI/CD   | [![Test](https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/actions/workflows/test.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/actions/workflows/test.yaml) [![Docs](https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/actions/workflows/docs.yaml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/actions/workflows/docs.yaml) |
+| Meta    | [![License](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/PyAthena.svg)](https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/blob/master/LICENSE) [![Ruff](https://img.shields.io/endpoint?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astral-sh/ruff/main/assets/badge/v2.json)](https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff) [![mypy](https://www.mypy-lang.org/static/mypy_badge.svg)](https://mypy-lang.org/) |
+
+## Requirements
+
+* Python
+
+  - CPython 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14
+
+## Installation
+
+```bash
+$ pip install PyAthena
+```
+
+Extra packages:
+
+| Package    | Install command                      | Version  |
+|------------|--------------------------------------|----------|
+| SQLAlchemy | `pip install PyAthena[SQLAlchemy]`   | >=1.0.0  |
+| Pandas     | `pip install PyAthena[Pandas]`       | >=1.3.0  |
+| Arrow      | `pip install PyAthena[Arrow]`        | >=10.0.0 |
+| Polars     | `pip install PyAthena[Polars]`       | >=1.0.0  |
+
+## Usage
+
+```python
+from pyathena import connect
+
+cursor = connect(s3_staging_dir="s3://YOUR_S3_BUCKET/path/to/",
+                 region_name="us-west-2").cursor()
+cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM one_row")
+print(cursor.description)
+print(cursor.fetchall())
+```
+
+## License
+
+[MIT license](LICENSE)
+
+Many of the implementations in this library are based on [PyHive](https://github.com/dropbox/PyHive), thanks for [PyHive](https://github.com/dropbox/PyHive).
+
+## Links
+
+- Documentation: https://laughingman7743.github.io/PyAthena/
+- PyPI Releases: https://pypi.org/project/PyAthena/
+- Source Code: https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/
+- Issue Tracker: https://github.com/laughingman7743/PyAthena/issues
+
+## Logo
+
+The PyAthena logo was generated using [Nano-Banana Pro](https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/pro/) (Gemini 3 Pro Image).

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