Pandas.errors.parsererror: null byte detected. this byte cannot be processed in python’s native csv library at the moment, so please pass in engine=’c’ instead

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Error: pandas.errors.parsererror: null byte detected. This byte cannot be processed in Python’s native CSV library at the moment.

Solution: To workaround this error, you can pass the engine='c' parameter while using the pandas read_csv() function.

The engine='c' parameter instructs pandas to use the C engine to handle the CSV parsing, instead of the default Python engine.

Here’s an example of how to use the read_csv() function with the engine='c' parameter:

    import pandas as pd

    # File path of the CSV file with null byte(s)
    file_path = 'path/to/your/file.csv'

    # Read the CSV file with engine='c'
    df = pd.read_csv(file_path, engine='c')

    # Perform operations on the dataframe
    # ...

    # Print the dataframe
    print(df)

In the above example, replace 'path/to/your/file.csv' with the actual path to your CSV file.

By specifying engine='c', you should be able to overcome the null byte error during CSV parsing.

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