Python Pandas Error tokenizing data

Question

I\'m trying to use pandas to manipulate a .csv file but I get this error:

pandas.parser.CParserError: Error tokenizing data. C error: Expected 2 field

Answer 1

The parser is getting confused by the header of the file. It reads the first row and infers the number of columns from that row. But the first two rows aren't representative of the actual data in the file.

Try it with data = pd.read_csv(path, skiprows=2)