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You want to read data from a CSV file in a DataFrame but you want to provide your own column names to DataFrame. What additional argument would you specify in read_csv() ?
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To read data from a CSV file into a DataFrame while providing our own column names, we can use the names argument in the read_csv() function. The syntax is : <DF> = pandas.read_csv(<filepath>, names = <sequence containing column names>).
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