Reading DataFrames from multiple files in a loop

As you saw in the video, loading data from multiple files into DataFrames is more efficient in a loop or a list comprehension.

Notice that this approach is not restricted to working with CSV files. That is, even if your data comes in other formats, as long as pandas has a suitable data import function, you can apply a loop or comprehension to generate a list of DataFrames imported from the source files.

Here, you'll continue working with The Guardian's Olympic medal dataset.

Create a list of file names called filenames with three strings 'Gold.csv', 'Silver.csv', & 'Bronze.csv'. This has been done for you.
Use a for loop to create another list called dataframes containing the three DataFrames loaded from filenames:
- Iterate over filenames.
- Read each CSV file in filenames into a DataFrame and append it to dataframes by using pd.read_csv() inside a call to .append().
Print the first 5 rows of the first DataFrame of the list dataframes. This has been done for you, so hit 'Submit Answer' to see the results.

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Reading DataFrames from multiple files in a loop

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