ERR: usecols fails to raise error if column doesn't exist but is the same length as headers · Issue #14671 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

A small, complete example of the issue

read_csv doesn't raise a value error if the use cols contains the same number of values as the headers

simple test_csv.txt file contains:
A,B
1,2
3,4

It currently will set the other column as NaN values:
A B
0 1 NaN
1 3 NaN

import pandas as pd file = pd.read_csv('data/test.csv',usecols=['A','C']) # Column C doesn't exist file

Expected Output

ValueError("Usecols do not match names.") exception

Output of pd.show_versions()

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit: None python: 3.5.2.final.0 python-bits: 64 OS: Darwin OS-release: 16.1.0 machine: x86_64 processor: i386 byteorder: little LC_ALL: None LANG: en_US.UTF-8

pandas: 0.18.1
nose: 1.3.7
pip: 8.1.2
setuptools: 27.2.0
Cython: 0.24.1
numpy: 1.11.1
scipy: 0.18.1
statsmodels: 0.6.1
xarray: None
IPython: 5.1.0
sphinx: 1.4.6
patsy: 0.4.1
dateutil: 2.5.3
pytz: 2016.6.1
blosc: None
bottleneck: 1.1.0
tables: 3.2.3.1
numexpr: 2.6.1
matplotlib: 1.5.3
openpyxl: 2.3.2
xlrd: 1.0.0
xlwt: 1.1.2
xlsxwriter: 0.9.3
lxml: 3.6.4
bs4: 4.5.1
html5lib: None
httplib2: None
apiclient: None
sqlalchemy: 1.0.13
pymysql: None
psycopg2: None
jinja2: 2.8
boto: 2.42.0
pandas_datareader: 0.2.1