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Kumar Prvn
Kumar Prvn

Reputation: 31

Can not read csv file, pandas parser error

I am getting parser error from pandas lib...not sure what could be the issue.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/2020/python-nifi/test.py", line 4, in <module>
    df = pd.read_csv("C:\\2020\\test\\sum.csv", '\t')
  File "C:\2020\python-nifi\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 676, in parser_f
    return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
  File "C:\2020\python-nifi\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 454, in _read
    data = parser.read(nrows)
  File "C:\2020\python-nifi\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 1133, in read
    ret = self._engine.read(nrows)
  File "C:\2020\python-nifi\venv\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 2037, in read
    data = self._reader.read(nrows)
  File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 860, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.read
  File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 875, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_low_memory
  File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 929, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_rows
  File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 916, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._tokenize_rows
  File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 2071, in pandas._libs.parsers.raise_parser_error
pandas.errors.ParserError: Error tokenizing data. C error: Expected 1 fields in line 5, saw 4



import pandas as pd


df = pd.read_csv("C:\\2020\\test\\sum.csv", sep='\t')
print(df)

file trying to read is ...

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 5959

Answers (2)

karel van dongen
karel van dongen

Reputation: 425

And if you use df = pd.read_csv("filename", sep='[:,|_]',engine='python' ) ? As you can use multiple seperators on import.

Upvotes: 1

Subbu VidyaSekar
Subbu VidyaSekar

Reputation: 2625

This error comes because of encoding error:

try this:

df = pd.read_csv('filename', encoding='utf-8')

Upvotes: 0

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