Backport PR #46691: REGR: read_fwf raising ValueError when widths was specified with usecols (#46709)

Co-authored-by: Patrick Hoefler <[email protected]>

Author: meeseeksmachine

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.4.3.rst

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ including other versions of pandas.
 
 Fixed regressions
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+- Fixed regression in :func:`read_fwf` raising ``ValueError`` when ``widths`` was specified with ``usecols`` (:issue:`46580`)
 -
 
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pandas/io/parsers/readers.py

@@ -867,7 +867,8 @@ def read_fwf(
                         len_index = 1
                     else:
                         len_index = len(index_col)
-            if len(names) + len_index != len(colspecs):
+            if kwds.get("usecols") is None and len(names) + len_index != len(colspecs):
+                # If usecols is used colspec may be longer than names
                 raise ValueError("Length of colspecs must match length of names")
 
     kwds["colspecs"] = colspecs

pandas/tests/io/parser/test_read_fwf.py

@@ -930,3 +930,26 @@ def test_names_and_infer_colspecs():
     result = read_fwf(StringIO(data), skiprows=1, usecols=[0, 2], names=["a", "b"])
     expected = DataFrame({"a": [959.0], "b": 22.2})
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+
+def test_widths_and_usecols():
+    # GH#46580
+    data = """0  1    n -0.4100.1
+0  2    p  0.2 90.1
+0  3    n -0.3140.4"""
+    result = read_fwf(
+        StringIO(data),
+        header=None,
+        usecols=(0, 1, 3),
+        widths=(3, 5, 1, 5, 5),
+        index_col=False,
+        names=("c0", "c1", "c3"),
+    )
+    expected = DataFrame(
+        {
+            "c0": 0,
+            "c1": [1, 2, 3],
+            "c3": [-0.4, 0.2, -0.3],
+        }
+    )
+    tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)