I'm trying to read a csv file with pandas. This file actually has only one row but it causes an error whenever I try to read it. Something wrong seems happening in line 8 but I could hardly find the 8th line since there's clearly only one row on it. I do like: with codecs.open("path_to_file", "rU", "Shift-JIS", "ignore") as file: df = pd.read_csv(file, header=None, sep="\t") df Then I get: ParserError: Error tokenizing data. C error: Expected 1 fields in line 8, saw 3 I don't get what's really going on, so any of your advice will be appreciated. Continue reading...