Orange Python data load error: "example of invalid length"
Question: I am trying to load a .csv file using python & Orange (machine learning
package) and getting an error. I have 208 columns but in the error I only see
few columns and after that nothing. What does the error mean?

    
    
    example of invalid length: (0 REAL P 16 0 1 0 112.11.119.78 Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.0.3; zh-cn; HTC Sensation Z710e Build/IML74K) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML  like Gecko) Ve android_android23 Droid Smartphone Android 4.0.3 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 Android_Phones Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null Null wifi Null Null pyramid 0 1 1 26 0 0 0 8 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Null Null Null Null en 1 CN Null FALSE ANDROID_APPLICATION ANDROID_APPLICATION
    


Answer: I just recently worked through this error myself when trying to import a bunch
of data into Orange. The problem with my data was that there were commas in
some of the field information, and the Orange data importer kept thinking
these were extra delimiters. This happened when trying to import both comma
and tab-separated data files.

My solution was to pre-process the data file before it went into Orange, and
replace all commas with another character which did not appear in the rest of
the data, and would not be considered a delimiter by Orange (for me a ':'
character worked out just fine).

I would say check your data and make sure there are no stray tabs or commas
that may get picked up as extra delimiters.

Also, is the data you included just from the error message, or is that a full
line of your data?

