Read a .csv into pandas from F: drive on Windows 7

Question

I have a .csv file on my F: drive on Windows 7 64-bit that I\'d like to read into pandas and manipulate.

None of the examples I see read from anything other than a s

Answer 1

I also got the same issue and got that resolved .

Check your path for the file correctly

I initially had the path like

dfTrain = pd.read_csv("D:\\Kaggle\\labeledTrainData.tsv",header=0,delimiter="\t",quoting=3)

This returned an error because the path was wrong .Then I have changed the path as below.This is working fine.

dfTrain = dfTrain = pd.read_csv("D:\\Kaggle\\labeledTrainData.tsv\\labeledTrainData.tsv",header=0,delimiter="\t",quoting=3)

This is because my earlier path was not correct.Hope you get it reolved

Answer 2

I cannot promise that this will work, but it's worth a shot:

import pandas as pd
import os

trainFile = "F:/Projects/Python/coursera/intro-to-data-science/kaggle/data/train.csv"

pwd = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(os.path.dirname(trainFile))
trainData = pd.read_csv(os.path.basename(trainFile))
os.chdir(pwd)

Answer 3

A better solution is to use literal strings like r'pathname\filename' rather than 'pathname\filename'. See Lexical Analysis for more details.

Answer 4

If you're sure the path is correct, make sure no other programs have the file open. I got that error once, and closing the Excel file made the error go away.

Answer 5

Try this:

import os
import pandas as pd


trainFile = os.path.join('F:',os.sep,'Projects','Python','coursera','intro-to-data-science','train.csv' )
trainData = pd.read_csv(trainFile)

Answer 6

This happens to me quite often. Usually I open the csv file in Excel, and save it as an xlsx file, and it works.

so instead of

df = pd.read_csv(r"...\file.csv")

Use:

df = pd.read_excel(r"...\file.xlsx")