title: MemoryError: Unable to allocate array with shape (118, 840983) and data type float64
body: <p>I'm getting the following error: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>MemoryError: Unable to allocate array with shape (118, 840983) and data type float64</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>in my <code>python</code> code whenever I am running a python <code>pandas.readcsv()</code> function to read a text file. Why is this??</p>
  
  <p>This is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import pandas as pd
  df = pd.read_csv("LANGEVIN_DATA.txt", delim_whitespace=True)
  </code></pre>