Pandas does not recognise a column of floats when importing a csv

Question

I am trying to read the IMF statistics into a pandas dataframe:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_table(\"http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2013/02/weod         


        

Answer 1

As mentioned by Jeff, this was a bug in <=0.12 (but is fixed in 0.13).

In [11]: s = '''A;B
1;2,000
3;4'''

In [12]: pd.read_csv(StringIO(s), sep=';', thousands=',')
Out[12]: 
   A     B
0  1  2000
1  3     4

[2 rows x 2 columns]

In [13]: pd.version.version
Out[13]: '0.13.0rc1-82-g66934c2'