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DOC: Clarify interaction of read_csv nrows with other args (#59078) #59084

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Thanks for the PR!

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* The header row containing column names,
* Rows before the header row, if ``header=1`` or larger,
* Fully commented rows,
* Rows skipped with ``skiprows``,
* Skipped blank lines.
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The last 3 seem obvious to me, it might be better to remove them since the doc page of read_csv is quite long already.

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Should I just say that nrows limits the number of rows of the returned dataframe? I can't find any edge case where that is not true.

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Sounds good

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Ok I've updated that now.

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DOC: clarify how read_csv nrows interacts with header and skiprows argument
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