piper.io.read_csv

piper.io.read_csv(file_name: str, sep: str = ',', strip_blanks: bool = True, clean_cols: bool = True, encoding: str = None, info: bool = True)pandas.core.frame.DataFrame[source]

pd.read_csv wrapper function

Parameters
  • file_name – csv formatted file

  • sep – column separator

  • strip_blanks – Default True If True, strip all column (row) values of leading and trailing blanks

  • clean_cols – default True If True, lowercase column names, replace spaces with underscore (‘_’)

  • encoding – default None. Tip:: For EU data try ‘latin-1’

  • info – if True, display additional logging information

Returns

Return type

pandas dataframe