Use first row as column names? Pandas read_html

'read_html` takes a header parameter. You can pass a row index:

read_html('http://money.cnn.com/data/hotstocks/', header =0, flavor = 'bs4')

Worth noting this caveat in the docs:

For example, you might need to manually assign column names if the column names are converted to NaN when you pass the header=0 argument

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