code: def parquet2pd(path, columns=None, **kwargs):
      """
      Read a parquet file to a pandas dataframe. It supports local, s3, hdfs file systems.
  
      :param path: string. parquet file path
      :param columns: list. If not None, all columns will be read from the file.
      :param kwargs: Any additional kwargs are passed to the pd.read_parquet
             and pyarrow.parquet.read_table.
      """
      import pandas as pd
  
      df = pd.read_parquet(
          path, engine="pyarrow", columns=columns, **kwargs
      )
      return df
  
label_desc: Use image node_id 1 for calling a global function with example usage: parquet2pd(path, columns) and returns: df