Pandas - How to read text files delimited with fixed widths

With Python Pandas library it is possible to easily read fixed width text files, for example:

In this case, the text file has its first 4 lines without data and the 5th line with the header. The header and the data are delimeted with fixed char widths, being the widths sizes as following:

•  12 spaces , 10 spaces ,6 spaces ,9 spaces ,7 spaces,7 spaces ,7 spaces ,4 spaces

The following code will read the file as a pandas DataFrame, and also parse the dates in the datetime format:

import pandas as pd

ds2 = pd.read_fwf('yourtextfile.txt', widths=[12,10,6,9,7,7,7,4], skiprows=4, parse_dates=True)