Is there any way to properly load fixed width file into a dataframe using Pandas?

[vicky53]

Hi,

Is there any way to properly load and write fixed width file into a dataframe using Pandas?

I'm trying to load a fixed width file using pandas read_fwd as below, but the spaces are getting trimmed now.

input_df = pd.read_fwf('fwfile', widths=[24,4,59,28,2,12,121], skiprows=0, parse_dates=True, dtype=str)

Can you guys please suggest any solution for this issue?

[Larz60+]

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