Ignore character while importing with pandas

Question

I could not find such an option in the documentation. A measuring device spits out everything in Excel:

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Answer 1

Another option would be:

f = open(fname, 'r')
line1 = f.readline()
data1 = pd.read_csv(f, sep='\s+', names=line1.replace(' #', '').split(), dtype=np.float)

You might have a different separator though.