How can I read in a .csv file with special characters in it in pandas?
There is df.drop command that can be used as follows to remove certain rows (in this case, 15 &amp; 16):

df.drop(df.index[[15,16]])

If the rows you don't need are regular (e.g. you never need row 15) then this is a quick and dirty solution.

If you only want to drop arbitrary rows containing some value, this should do the trick:

df = df.drop([df.column_name == ©1990-2016 AAR])