read_csv skiprows not working?
Working with this data http://bit.ly/Bloomberg-Fed-Data (in particular, Lehman_Brothers_Holdings_Inc_1.csv) it appears skiprows is not working.

Perhaps I'm just using read_csv incorrectly but I can't reproduce the issue using Std lib csv or by directly reading the file and parsing myself.

example:

In [31]: lehman = pd.read_csv('/Users/rroberts/fed_data/Lehman_Brothers_Holdings_Inc_1.csv', sep=',', skiprows=range(13), index_col=0, na_values='', names=['date', 'debt', 'mkt_cap', 'percent_mkt_cap', 'ST_OMO', 'TSLF', 'PDCF', 'DW'], parse_dates=True)

In [32]: lehman.DW
Out[32]: 
date
Ticker                                               NaN
Identified in Fed Documents as:                      NaN
Capital Raised From Home Governments                 NaN
Programs                                             NaN
Country                                              NaN
Industry                                             NaN
Average Daily Balance 
From 8/1/2007 to 4/30/2010    NaN
Peak Amount of Debt                                  NaN
Peak Date                                            NaN
Number of Days In Debt to the Fed                    DW
8/1/2007                                             $0.00 
8/2/2007                                             $0.00 
8/3/2007                                             $0.00 
8/4/2007                                             $0.00 
8/5/2007                                             $0.00 
...
4/16/2010    $0.00 
4/17/2010    $0.00 
4/18/2010    $0.00 
4/19/2010    $0.00 
4/20/2010    $0.00 
4/21/2010    $0.00 
4/22/2010    $0.00 
4/23/2010    $0.00 
4/24/2010    $0.00 
4/25/2010    $0.00 
4/26/2010    $0.00 
4/27/2010    $0.00 
4/28/2010    $0.00 
4/29/2010    $0.00 
4/30/2010    $0.00 
Name: DW, Length: 1014
###### 
# using file reading
###### 

In [33]: f = open('/Users/rroberts/fed_data/Lehman_Brothers_Holdings_Inc_1.csv', 'r')

In [34]: lines = f.readl
f.readline   f.readlines  

In [34]: lines = f.readlines()

In [35]: lines[:13]
Out[35]: 
['Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.,Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.*,,,,,,\r\n',
 'Ticker,LEHMQ US Equity,,,,,,\r\n',
 'Includes Loans to:,"Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.",,,,,,\r\n',
 'Identified in Fed Documents as:,"Lehman Brothers Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc. and LEHMAN BROTHERS BK FSB",,,,,,\r\n',
 'Capital Raised From Home Governments,$0.00 ,,,,,,\r\n',
 'Programs,"PDCF, TSLF, ST OMO, DW",,,,,,\r\n',
 'Country,United States,,,,,,\r\n',
 'Industry,Diversified Financial Services,,,,,,\r\n',
 '"Average Daily Balance \n',
 'From 8/1/2007 to 4/30/2010","$3,121.20 ",,,,,,\r\n',
 'Peak Amount of Debt,"$46,023.00 ",,,,,,\r\n',
 'Peak Date,9/15/2008,,,,,,\r\n',
 'Number of Days In Debt to the Fed,195,Market Cap,Percent of Market Cap,ST OMO,TSLF,PDCF,DW\r\n']
