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Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)
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Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)

by Igor Milovanovic, Dimitry Foures, Giuseppe Vettigli
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
6h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Importing data from tab-delimited files

Another very common format of flat datafile is the tab-delimited file. This can also come from an Excel export but can be the output of some custom software we must get our input from.

The good thing is that usually this format can be read in almost the same way as CSV files as the Python module csv supports the so-called dialects that enable us to use the same principles to read variations of similar file formats, one of them being the tab- delimited format.

Getting ready

Now you're already able to read CSV files. If not, please refer to the Importing data from CSV recipe first.

How to do it...

We will reuse the code from the Importing data from CSV recipe, where all we need to change is the dialect we are using ...

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