How to read file with space separated values in pandas

I try to read the file into pandas.
The file has values separated by space, but with different number of spaces
I tried:

pd.read_csv('file.csv', delimiter=' ')

but it doesn’t work

Answers:

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Method 1

add delim_whitespace=True argument, it’s faster than regex.

Method 2

you can use regex as the delimiter:

pd.read_csv("whitespace.csv", header=None, delimiter=r"s+")

Method 3

If you can’t get text parsing to work using the accepted answer (e.g if your text file contains non uniform rows) then it’s worth trying with Python’s csv library – here’s an example using a user defined Dialect:

 import csv

 csv.register_dialect('skip_space', skipinitialspace=True)
 with open(my_file, 'r') as f:
      reader=csv.reader(f , delimiter=' ', dialect='skip_space')
      for item in reader:
          print(item)

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