title: How to read an ORC file stored locally in Python Pandas?
body: <p>Can I think of an ORC file as similar to a CSV file with column headings and row labels containing data? If so, can I somehow read it into a simple pandas dataframe? I am not that familiar with tools like Hadoop or Spark, but is it necessary to understand them just to see the contents of a local ORC file in Python? </p>
  
  <p>The filename is <code>someFile.snappy.orc</code></p>
  
  <p>I can see online that <code>spark.read.orc('someFile.snappy.orc')</code> works, but even after <code>import pyspark</code>, it is throwing error. </p>