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Saturday, August 27, 2022

[FIXED] How to get rid of "Unnamed: 0" column in a pandas DataFrame read in from CSV file?

 August 27, 2022     csv, dataframe, pandas, python     No comments   

Issue

I have a situation wherein sometimes when I read a csv from df I get an unwanted index-like column named unnamed:0.

file.csv

,A,B,C
0,1,2,3
1,4,5,6
2,7,8,9

The CSV is read with this:

pd.read_csv('file.csv')

   Unnamed: 0  A  B  C
0           0  1  2  3
1           1  4  5  6
2           2  7  8  9

This is very annoying! Does anyone have an idea on how to get rid of this?


Solution

It's the index column, pass pd.to_csv(..., index=False) to not write out an unnamed index column in the first place, see the to_csv() docs.

Example:

In [37]:
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(5,3), columns=list('abc'))
pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(df.to_csv()))

Out[37]:
   Unnamed: 0         a         b         c
0           0  0.109066 -1.112704 -0.545209
1           1  0.447114  1.525341  0.317252
2           2  0.507495  0.137863  0.886283
3           3  1.452867  1.888363  1.168101
4           4  0.901371 -0.704805  0.088335

compare with:

In [38]:
pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(df.to_csv(index=False)))

Out[38]:
          a         b         c
0  0.109066 -1.112704 -0.545209
1  0.447114  1.525341  0.317252
2  0.507495  0.137863  0.886283
3  1.452867  1.888363  1.168101
4  0.901371 -0.704805  0.088335

You could also optionally tell read_csv that the first column is the index column by passing index_col=0:

In [40]:
pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(df.to_csv()), index_col=0)

Out[40]:
          a         b         c
0  0.109066 -1.112704 -0.545209
1  0.447114  1.525341  0.317252
2  0.507495  0.137863  0.886283
3  1.452867  1.888363  1.168101
4  0.901371 -0.704805  0.088335


Answered By - EdChum
Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (PHPFixing Admin)
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