Pandas

Detect Csv Delimiters

One of the most frequent format for data import and export in python is CSV. Reading and loading a CSV file to pandas is straightforward – assuming you know the separator, or the separator is a comma. While the name Comma Separated Values implies CSV file automatically use comma as separator (also called delimiter) this is not always the case. Depending on your settings the separator can be anything from semicolons to pipe character.