BUG: unexpected behavior when Loading lines like "\""\t"a"

[hyleepp]

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd

"""
data contains only one line as below
"\""\t"a" (where "\t" is an escape character）
"""

df = pd.read_csv(data, sep='\t', header=None)

Issue Description

df will only have one column, which is expected to be two

Expected Behavior

separate it to two lines as we operate in following steps:

line = open(data).read()
line.split("\t") # get two items

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : d9cdd2e
python : 3.11.5.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 4.15.0-192-generic
Version : #203-Ubuntu SMP Wed Aug 10 17:40:03 UTC 2022
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 2.2.2
numpy : 1.24.3
pytz : 2023.3.post1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 68.0.0
pip : 23.2.1
Cython : None
pytest : 7.4.0
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 5.0.2
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : 4.9.3
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 8.15.0
pandas_datareader : None
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : 4.12.2
bottleneck : None
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : 2023.4.0
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.7.2
numba : 0.57.1
numexpr : 2.8.4
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 11.0.0
pyreadstat : None
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : 2023.4.0
scipy : 1.11.1
sqlalchemy : None
tables : 3.8.0
tabulate : None
xarray : 2023.6.0
xlrd : None
zstandard : 0.19.0
tzdata : 2023.3
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None

[Anurag-Varma]

The data line which you gave is "\""\t"a"

But the image in issue description has different text.

Can you give exactly what should be present, and here does data mean its a path to a .csv file, cause you didn't describe the issue properly ?

[hyleepp]

I’m sorry for my unclear expression.

1. The actual data is still "\""\t"a" like the below image. The image in the first comment is meant to show that pd does not separated into two elements as expected.
   
2. Yes, data means a path to a .csv file that contains the given line.

[Anurag-Varma]

This works when you have the data inside .csv to be in the format of:
"\"" "a"

But fails for "\""\t"a"

I think using the separator \t checks for tab spaces and not for the same exact \t separator

[Anurag-Varma]

@hyleepp

Or else you can use :

import pandas as pd

# Specify the path to your CSV file
file_path = 'test.csv'

# Read the file using tab as the separator
df = pd.read_csv(file_path, delimiter='t', header=None, escapechar='\\')

# Display the dataframe
print(df)

Output:

    0  1
0  "\  a

[Anurag-Varma]

take

[rhshadrach]

Agreed this looks like a bug. Reproducible example:

buf = io.StringIO('"\\""\\t"a"\n\n')
print(pd.read_csv(buf, sep="\t", header=None))
#         0
# 0  \"\ta"