read_csv from list of strings

[beli...@aol.com]

I want to read a dataframe from a file whose data is not in the right format -- there are dollar signs in some fields

and some extra lines at the end. Can I read the read the file into a list of strings, modify those strings,

and then use read_csv on that list? Or do I need to write the modified list of strings to a temporary file that can 

be read? Thank you.

[Miki Tebeka]

You can use "skipfooter" to skip rows at the end of the line. After the DataFrame is loaded you can use df[col].str.replace('\$', '') to remove the $ signs.