Read the last N lines of a CSV file in Python with numpy / pandas

Question

Is there a quick way to read the last N lines of a CSV file in Python, using numpy or pandas?

1. I cannot do skip_header

Answer 1

Use skiprows parameter of pandas read_csv(), the tougher part is finding the number of lines in the csv. here's a possible solution:

with open('filename',"r") as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f,delimiter = ",")
    data = list(reader)
    row_count = len(data)

df = pd.read_csv('filename', skiprows = row_count - N)