I'm trying to open a txt file with sep=' $ but I get that error. This is the code:

pd.read_csv("dataset.txt", sep='   $   ', engine='python')

# Error:
error: nothing to repeat at position 0

Sample of the txt file:

u0    $    u2    $    m0    $    ['L276', 'L277']
u0    $    u2    $    m0    $    ['L280', 'L281']
u0    $    u2    $    m0    $    ['L363', 'L364']
u0    $    u2    $    m0    $    ['L365', 'L366']
u0    $    u2    $    m0    $    ['L367', 'L368']
u0    $    u2    $    m0    $    ['L401', 'L402', 'L403']
u0    $    u2    $    m0    $    ['L404', 'L405', 'L406', 'L407']
u0    $    u2    $    m0    $    ['L575', 'L576']

CodePudding user response：

Change the code to:

pd.read_csv('dataset.txt', sep='\ \ \ \$\ \ \ ' , engine='python')

This is because both and $ are considered special characters