How do I read a fix width format text file in pandas

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I just got my hands on pandas and am figuring out how I can read a file. The file is from WRDS database and is the SP500 constituents list all the way back to 1960s. I check

Answer 1

pandas.read_fwf() was added in pandas 0.7.3 (April 2012) to handle fixed-width files.

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