How to remove multiple headers from dataframe and keeps just the first python

Question

I\'m working with a csv file that presents multiple headers, all are repeated like in this example:

1                     2     3   4
0            POSITION_T  P         


        

Answer 1

past_data=pd.read_csv("book.csv")

past_data = past_data[past_data.LAT.astype(str).str.contains('LAT') == False]

print(past_data)

1. Replace the CSV (here: book.csv)
2. Replace your variable names (here: past_data)
3. Replace all the LAT with your any of your column name
4. That's All/ your multiple headers will be removed

Answer 2

This is not ideal! The best way to deal with this would be to handle it in the file parsing.

mask = df.iloc[:, 0] == 'POSITION_T'
d1 = df[~mask]
d1.columns = df.loc[mask.idxmax].values

d1 = d1.apply(pd.to_numeric, errors='ignore')
d1

   POSITION_T  PROB  ID
1                      
1       2.385   2.0   1
3       3.074   6.0   3
4       6.731   8.0   4
7      12.508   2.0   1
8      12.932   4.0   2
9      12.985   4.0   2

Answer 3

Filtering out by field value:

df = pd.read_table('yourfile.csv', header=None, delim_whitespace=True, skiprows=1)
df.columns = ['0','POSITION_T','PROB','ID']
del df['0']

# filtering out the rows with `POSITION_T` value in corresponding column
df = df[df.POSITION_T.str.contains('POSITION_T') == False]

print(df)

The output:

  POSITION_T PROB ID
1      2.385  2.0  1
3      3.074  6.0  3
4      6.731  8.0  4
6     12.508  2.0  1
7     12.932  4.0  2
8     12.985  4.0  2