After reading a big CSV file from pandas I am getting an absurd output of the file in my workbook

Question

I am reading a very Big CSV file from pandas in return when I am checking the output of the file it is throwing some absurd result:

projects=pd.read_csv('Projects.csv', sep='delimiter', header=None,engine='python',encoding='latin-1',skiprows=2)

I have tried many conditions by changing the encoding method and many of the other conditions still, I am receiving the same output

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9   F:i¸Í-IÅX¾ÒÃxß)éx{ï`0%¬ì2û70aàÖ±...
10  ^o+=7|5ÊØ`ø~@ýLÀÛ5YSvú÷t<gcxÃpåv»ûÇï...

It would be great help If I get it resolved!

Answer 1

This is probably a binary file ( .xls or .xlsx ) with a .csv extension.

There's only one 'field' in each row, so no delimiter is found.

Since you skipped the first 2 rows, I can't check the file signature to be sure.

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Looking at the histogram of the small data sample you provided, it looks like this is compressed data and probably a .xlsx file (which is actually a zip file).