Learning Predictive Analytics with Python

Use cases of the read_csv method

The read_csv method can be put to a variety of uses. Let us look at some such use cases.

Passing the directory address and filename as variables

Sometimes it is easier and viable to pass the directory address and filename as variables to avoid hard-coding. More importantly so, when one doesn't want to hardcode the full address of the file and intend to use this full address many times. Let us see how we can do so while importing a dataset.

import pandas as pd
path = 'E:/Personal/Learning/Datasets/Book'
filename = 'titanic3.csv'
fullpath = path+'/'+filename
data = pd.read_csv(fullpath)

For such cases, alternatively, one can use the following snippet that uses the path.join method in an os package:

import pandas as pd ...