Trailing delimiter confuses pandas read_csv

Question

A csv (comma delimited) file, where lines have an extra trailing delimiter, seems to confuse pandas.read_csv. (The data file is [1])

It treats the extra

Answer 1

Well, there's a very simple workaround. Add a dummy column to the header when reading csv file in:

cols = ...
cols.append('')
records = pandas.read_csv('filename.txt', skiprows=1, names=cols)

Then columns and header get aligned again.