# Action for querying from pandas dataframe

**URL:** <https://forum.rasa.com/t/action-for-querying-from-pandas-dataframe/2512>\
**Category:** Rasa Open Source\
**Created:** [November 8, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/action-for-querying-from-pandas-dataframe/2512 "2018-11-08T07:03:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![karandesaiii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/85e7bf/32.png) [@karandesaiii](https://forum.rasa.com/u/karandesaiii)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2018, 7:03am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/action-for-querying-from-pandas-dataframe/2512/1 "2018-11-08T07:03:19Z")

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I’m building custom actions which require declaring pandas dataframes as global variables. My question is, where exactly should I declare these global variables and dataframes defining custom actions?