Ignore character while importing with pandas

Question

I could not find such an option in the documentation. A measuring device spits out everything in Excel:

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Answer 1

Pandas read_csv() supports regex. You can avoid matching the white space if it is preceded by something (in your case #). Just as an example, avoiding "!":

sep='(?

if you want you could rename the column to remove the initial character and white space.

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