I am struggling to convert a comma separated list into a multi column (7) data-frame.
print (type(mylist))
<type 'list'>
Print(mylist)
['AN,2__AAS000,26,20150826113000,-283.000,20150826120000,-283.000', 'AN,2__AE000,26,20150826113000,0.000,20150826120000,0.000',.........
The following creates a frame of a single column:
df = pd.DataFrame(mylist)
I have reviewed the inbuilt csv functionality for Pandas, however my csv data is held in a list. How can I simply covert the list into a 7 column data-frame.
Thanks in advance.
You need to split each string in your list:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame([sub.split(",") for sub in l])
print(df)
Output:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
0 AN 2__AS000 26 20150826113000 -283.000 20150826120000 -283.000
1 AN 2__A000 26 20150826113000 0.000 20150826120000 0.000
2 AN 2__AE000 26 20150826113000 -269.000 20150826120000 -269.000
3 AN 2__AE000 26 20150826113000 -255.000 20150826120000 -255.000
4 AN 2__AE00 26 20150826113000 -254.000 20150826120000 -254.000
If you know how many lines to skip in your csv you can do it all with read_csv using skiprows=lines_of_metadata
:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("in.csv",skiprows=3,header=None)
print(df)
Or if each line of the metadata starts with a certain character you can use comment:
df = pd.read_csv("in.csv",header=None,comment="#")
If you need to specify more then one character you can combine itertools.takewhile
which will drop lines starting with xxx
:
import pandas as pd
from itertools import dropwhile
import csv
with open("in.csv") as f:
f = dropwhile(lambda x: x.startswith("#!!"), f)
r = csv.reader(f)
df = pd.DataFrame().from_records(r)
Using your input data adding some lines starting with #!!:
#!! various
#!! metadata
#!! lines
AN,2__AS000,26,20150826113000,-283.000,20150826120000,-283.000
AN,2__A000,26,20150826113000,0.000,20150826120000,0.000
AN,2__AE000,26,20150826113000,-269.000,20150826120000,-269.000
AN,2__AE000,26,20150826113000,-255.000,20150826120000,-255.000
AN,2__AE00,26,20150826113000,-254.000,20150826120000,-254.000
Outputs:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
0 AN 2__AS000 26 20150826113000 -283.000 20150826120000 -283.000
1 AN 2__A000 26 20150826113000 0.000 20150826120000 0.000
2 AN 2__AE000 26 20150826113000 -269.000 20150826120000 -269.000
3 AN 2__AE000 26 20150826113000 -255.000 20150826120000 -255.000
4 AN 2__AE00 26 20150826113000 -254.000 20150826120000 -254.000
you can covert the list into a 7 column data-frame in the following way:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv(filename, sep=',')
I encounter a similar problem. I solve it by this way.
def lrsplit(line):
left, *_ , right = line.split('-')
mid = '-'.join(_)
return left, mid, right.strip()
example = pd.DataFrame(lrsplit(line) for line in open("example.csv"))
example.columns = ['location', 'position', 'company']
Result:
location position company
0 india manager intel
1 india sales-manager amazon
2 banglore ccm- head - county jp morgan
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