Trailing delimiter confuses pandas read_csv

Question

A csv (comma delimited) file, where lines have an extra trailing delimiter, seems to confuse pandas.read_csv. (The data file is [1])

It treats the extra

Answer 1

I created a GitHub issue to have a look at handling this issue automatically:

https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/2442

I think the FEC file format changed slightly causing this annoying issue-- if you use the one posted here http://github.com/pydata/pydata-book you hopefully won't have that problem.