You can specify the row index in the read_csv or read_html constructors via the header parameter which represents Row number(s) to use as the column names, and the start of the data. This has the advantage of automatically dropping all the preceding rows which supposedly are junk.
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO
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csv = '''junk1, junk2, junk3, junk4, junk5
junk1, junk2, junk3, junk4, junk5
pears, apples, lemons, plums, other
40, 50, 61, 72, 85
'''
df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(csv), header=2)
print(df)
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pears apples lemons plums other
0 40 50 61 72 85