I recently started using Geopandas in python for some of my spatial work and am very pleased with it - I'm currently trying to read in PostGIS features and don't quite understand how to parameterize the database connection, and it didn't seem clear in the documentation:
GeoDataFrame.from_postgis(sql, con, geom_col='geom', crs=None, index_col=None,
coerce_float=True, params=None)
This is likely a very simple question, all I wanted to know is what needs to go in 'con' - I assume a string with database connection information? But in what format? Setting 'sql' seems straightforward. Any help greatly appreciated - thanks!