从获取请求到 python pandas 数据帧的文本响应，不包括开始和结束行

Question

I am new to python, I am working on code that performs a get request from an api and returns the response in a text format and when I use

print(response.text)

I get the response in the below format -

ResponseBegin
Name|Age|Gender|Country
"ABC"|23|M|USA
"ABCD"|21|F|CAN
ResponseEnd

Can anyone please advise how to convert this into a pandas dataframe and also remove the ResponseBegin and ResponseEnd lines at the beginning and ending making the second row as the column header using |as a delimiter.

Thank you very much for your advise.

Thank you

Answer 1

It's more helpful if you do not show what print(response.text) contains, but just what response.text contains, since the print function is doing some formatting for human readability.

But I will assume that response.text is just a single string that looks like this:

'ResponseBegin\nName|Age|Gender|Country\n"ABC"|23|M|USA\n"ABCD"|21|F|CAN\nResponseEnd'

Notice the \n , which is the "newline" character.

There are several ways to solve this, but the easiest (fewest lines of code) I think is to export it to a CSV file and then read it in:

with open('mydf.csv', 'w') as fh:
   fh.write(response.text)

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv('mydf.csv', sep='|', skiprows=1, skipfooter=1)

You can read more about read_csv for all of its handy tools, but here I am using:

• sep : the thing to use as a separator, | in your case
• skiprows / skipfooter : the number of lines at the beginning or end to skip