Escaped quotes in pandas read_csv

Question

I am unable to create a dataframe which has escaped quotes when using read_csv.
(Note: R\'s read.csv works as expected.)

My code:

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Answer 1

It does work, but you have to indicate the escape character for the embedded quotes:

In [1]: data = '''SEARCH_TERM,ACTUAL_URL
"bra tv bord","http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/10475/?se%7cps%7cnonbranded%7cvardagsrum%7cgoogle%7ctv_bord"
"tv p\xc3\xa5 hjul","http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/10475/?se%7cps%7cnonbranded%7cvardagsrum%7cgoogle%7ctv_bord"
"SLAGBORD, \\"Bergslagen\\", IKEA:s 1700-tals serie","http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/10475/?se%7cps%7cnonbranded%7cvardagsrum%7cgoogle%7ctv_bord"'''

In [2]: df = read_csv(StringIO(data), escapechar='\\', encoding='utf-8')

In [3]: df
Out[3]: 
                                      SEARCH_TERM                                         ACTUAL_URL
0                                     bra tv bord  http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/d...
1                                      tv på hjul  http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/d...
2  SLAGBORD, "Bergslagen", IKEA:s 1700-tals serie  http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/categories/d...

see this gist.