String data to accessible python data

Question

I have the string looks like this """PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ? 00:00:01 systemd 2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd 3 ? 00:00:00 rcu_gp 4 ? 00:00:00 rcu_par_gp""" When I try to access the data["PID"] it will give me 1,2,3,4 and so for the other headers. To overcome that I am trying to using pandas and StringIO to convert it to a dataframe. But it will be better if the logic is python related and not with pandas Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

You can use the below approach: from io import StringIO text = StringIO("""PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ? 00:00:01 systemd 2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd 3 ? 00:00:00 rcu_gp 4 ? 00:00:00 rcu_par_gp""") Output: print(pd.read_csv(text, sep="\s{2,}")) PID TTY TIME CMD 0 1 ? 00:00:01 systemd 1 2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd 2 3 ? 00:00:00 rcu_gp 3 4 ? 00:00:00 rcu_par_gp Do check out Data Science with Python course which helps you understand from scratch.