Prevent pandas read_csv treating first row as header of column names

Question

I\'m reading in a pandas DataFrame using pd.read_csv. I want to keep the first row as data, however it keeps getting converted to column names.

Answer 1

I think you need parameter header=None to read_csv:

Sample:

import pandas as pd
from pandas.compat import StringIO

temp=u"""a,b
2,1
1,1"""

df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(temp),header=None)
print (df)
   0  1
0  a  b
1  2  1
2  1  1