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pandas.Series.from_csv

classmethod Series.from_csv(path, sep=', ', parse_dates=True, header=None, index_col=0, encoding=None)

Read delimited file into Series

Parameters :

path : string

sep : string, default ‘,’

Field delimiter

parse_dates : boolean, default True

Parse dates. Different default from read_table

header : int, default 0

Row to use at header (skip prior rows)

index_col : int or sequence, default 0

Column to use for index. If a sequence is given, a MultiIndex is used. Different default from read_table

encoding : string, optional

a string representing the encoding to use if the contents are non-ascii, for python versions prior to 3

Returns :

y : Series