Retrieve delimiter infered by read_csv in pandas

Question

When using the configuration for automatic separator detection to read csv files (pd.read_csv(file_path, sep=None)), pandas tries to infer the delimiter (or separat

Answer 1

I think you can do this without having to import csv:

reader = pd.read_csv(file_path, sep = None, iterator = True)
inferred_sep = reader._engine.data.dialect.delimiter

EDIT:

Forgot the iterator = True argument.