Lopsis

Lesson 1.3

Reading files and CSVs

Real data arrives as a slightly wrong file. Encodings, delimiters, and missing values are the first three problems you will meet.

Taught byTomas BergPython · pandas · System design · Distributed systems
7m Beginner 28,200 students

Overview

Real data arrives as a slightly wrong file. Encodings, delimiters, and missing values are the first three problems you will meet.

What this lesson covers

  • Read and write files safely with context managers
  • Parse CSV data and handle encoding issues
  • Deal with missing and malformed rows on load

This lesson sits in Python Foundations for Data, part of Python for Data Work. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.

In this lesson you will:

  • Read and write files safely with context managers
  • Parse CSV data and handle encoding issues
  • Deal with missing and malformed rows on load

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