Feature Request: skipcols in .read_csv (original) (raw)
I'd like to read a set of csv files but exclude specific columns. read_csv currently has a usecols keyword, but it requires writing a list of all the columns present. This is a bit tedious and more importantly, not all files have the same columns, so usecols would not work in general cases, whereas a complimentary function would work. Can a skipcols keyword be added to 0.17 that accepts a list of column names and reads all but those columns into a DataFrame? Thanks.