Pandas read csv not separating columns

Question

I am trying to read a csv encoded in utf-8 with a comma as separator but the dataframe is not separating any of the columns.

This is an example of the csv file

19,"Aero Biniza",\\N,"","BZS","BINIZA","Mexico","N"

The whole file is available here

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jpatokal/openflights/master/data/airlines.dat

And this is my code

pd.read_csv(input_csv, encoding='utf-8')

I am probably doing something stupid but grateful if anyone can point it out.

Answer 1

CSV need a header to have columns be named by them, looks like the csv in the link does not have that.

In order to read a csv in that doesn't have a header you need to pass param header=None:

df = pd.read_csv(file_path, header=None)

See the docs