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Pandas Skipping lines(Stop warnings from showing)

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I am reading a csv file in python this way using pandas

data = pd.read_csv('file1.csv', error_bad_lines=False)

I am getting Skipping line 6: expected 4 fields, saw 6

How do i stop this warnings from showing up? Thanks

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PythonRookie Avatar asked Jun 21 '17 15:06

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1 Answers

From the docs:

data = pd.read_csv('file1.csv', error_bad_lines=False, warn_bad_lines=False)

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jack6e Avatar answered Sep 17 '22 18:09

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