April 2018
Beginner
238 pages
7h 13m
English
Pandas is a well-developed and tested suite of tools that provide a wide assortment of functionality for Python users. Note that there are similar reading methods for the other languages in play for Jupyter. The read_fwf function is one of many. In our example, we only passed in the file location, widths, and column names. There are a number of additional optional parameters as well. Of the other parameters, I can imagine using a zip parameter (for reading a zipped text file while it remains in the .zip file), whether to skip a number of rows at the start of the file (I think many flat files reserve this space for describing the file contents), and alternatively using column information with the positional start and end of ...