Thanks you all for the input. Michiel's suggestion worked. At first It gave me an error about "low_memory"; once i sat low_memory to false, it worked.
I am new to pandas and i am working on a 20,000 record csv file with mixed data types and in many cases, one entry (cell) has a combination of string and numeric values which will eventually be separated. Thanks again-EK
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