How to read file with space separated values in pandas

Question

I try to read the file into pandas. The file has values separated by space, but with different number of spaces I tried:

pd.read_csv(\'file.csv\', delimiter=         


        

Answer 1

you can use regex as the delimiter:

pd.read_csv("whitespace.csv", header=None, delimiter=r"\s+")

Answer 2

add delim_whitespace=True argument, it's faster than regex.

Answer 3

The accepted answer doesn't appear to work with newer versions of Python so here's a more up to date example using a user defined Dialect:

 csv.register_dialect('skip_space', skipinitialspace=True)
 with open(my_file, 'r') as f:
      reader=csv.reader(f , delimiter=' ', dialect='skip_space')
      for item in reader:
          print(item)