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Initializing from file failed

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  File "source\matrix_gen.py", line 68, in <module>
    main()
  File "source\matrix_gen.py", line 22, in main
    data = pd.read_csv(sys.argv[1], parse_dates=True, dayfirst=True)# argv[1]: stock_symbol.txt
  File "C:\Users\aims\Anaconda3\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 678, in parser_f
    return _read(filepath_or_buffer, kwds)
  File "C:\Users\aims\Anaconda3\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 440, in _read
    parser = TextFileReader(filepath_or_buffer, **kwds)
  File "C:\Users\aims\Anaconda3\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 787, in __init__
    self._make_engine(self.engine)
  File "C:\Users\aims\Anaconda3\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 1014, in _make_engine
    self._engine = CParserWrapper(self.f, **self.options)
  File "C:\Users\aims\Anaconda3\envs\py35\lib\site-packages\pandas\io\parsers.py", line 1708, in __init__
    self._reader = parsers.TextReader(src, **kwds)
  File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 384, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.__cinit__
  File "pandas\_libs\parsers.pyx", line 697, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._setup_parser_source
OSError: Initializing from file failed

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breckuhcommented, Sep 11, 2018

I ran into a similar issue with a Jupyter notebook downloaded from the internet with an accompanying CSV. Turned out the CSV had no read permissions–sigh–and Pandas didn’t give a hint as to that underlying cause. Not sure if this was the same thing happening to you @JafferWilson--I forget how permissions work on Windows–but figured I post this in case anyone else hits a similar issue.

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mackmengcommented, Mar 7, 2019

txtPath = ‘E:/Defensive/textlog’ txtLists = os.listdir(txtPath) # txtLists = os.path.isdir(txtPath) for txt in txtLists: file_name = txtPath + “/” + txt reader = pd.read_table(file_name, sep=“,”, names=[i for i in range(4)], iterator=True)

error：OSError: Initializing from file failed
why?

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