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Jupyter Cookbook
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Jupyter Cookbook

by Toomey, Nikhil Borkar, Nikhil Akki, Juan Tomás Oliva Ramos
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
238 pages
7h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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Getting ready

In this example, we will be using Python to read in a flat file. The pandas library of routines includes a function to read flat files, read_fwf. Your Python script passes in the column widths and names to read_fwf, and the function returns a DataFrame.

Of course, now that I am looking for a flat file, I can't find one! I took the first 20 records of the preceding baseball data and stored that in a flat file, baseball.txt. There is no header record. Only the first several columns are available. It looks like this:

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ISBN: 9781788839440Supplemental Content