I m trying to read a csv-file from given URL using Python 3 x import pandas as pd import requests url quot https github com cs109 2014 data blob master countries csv quot s requests get url content c pd read csv s I have the following error quot Expected file path name or file-like object got lt class bytes gt type quot How can I fix this I m using Python 3 4

Pandas read_csv from url

In the latest version of pandas (0.19.2) you can directly pass the url

import pandas as pd

url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cs109/2014_data/master/countries.csv"
c=pd.read_csv(url)

~ Answered on 2017-01-26 18:34:37