pandas.read_csv: how to skip comment lines

Question

I think I misunderstand the intention of read_csv. If I have a file \'j\' like

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a,b,c
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1,2,3

How can I pandas.read_csv t

Answer 1

So I believe in the latest releases of pandas (version 0.16.0), you could throw in the comment='#' parameter into pd.read_csv and this should skip commented out lines.

These github issues shows that you can do this:

• https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/10548
• https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/4623

See the documentation on read_csv: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_csv.html