Import csv file into a matrix/Array in Python

Question

I am trying to import big csv files which contain both string and numeric matrix of data into Arrays/matrices in Python. In MATLAB I used to load the file and simply assign

Answer 1

You can use pandas.

import pandas as pd
df = pd.from_csv('filename.csv')

If the delimiter is not ',' you can change the default value by using the sep keyword, for example:

df = pd.from_csv('filename.csv', sep='\')

You will get a dataframe that comes with powerful analysis functions.