Import and parse .data file - python-3.x

Question

there is a file I tried to import and safe as pandas df. At a first sight looks like it's already columns and rows ordered, but finally I had to do a bunch of stuff to create pandas df. Could you please check if there is much faster way to manage it?
url = 'https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/auto-mpg/auto-mpg.data'
My way of doing it is:
import requests
import pandas as pd
r = requests.get(url)
file = r.text
step_1 = file.split('\n')
for n in range(len(step_1)): # remove empty strings
if bool(step_1[n]) == False:
del(step_1[n])
step_2 = [i.split('\t') for i in step_1]
cars_names = [i[1] for i in step_2]
step_3 = [i[0].split(' ') for i in step_2]
for e in range(len(step_3)): # remove empty strings in each sublist
step_3[e] = [item for item in step_3[e] if item != '']
mpg = [i[0] for i in step_3]
cylinders = [i[1] for i in step_3]
disp = [i[2] for i in step_3]
horsepower = [i[3] for i in step_3]
weight = [i[4] for i in step_3]
acce = [i[5] for i in step_3]
year = [i[6] for i in step_3]
origin = [i[7] for i in step_3]
list_cols = [cars_names, mpg, cylinders, disp, horsepower, weight, acce, year, origin]
# list_labels written manually:
list_labels = ['car name', 'mpg', 'cylinders', 'displacement', 'horsepower', 'weight', 'acceleration', 'model year', 'origin']
zipped = list(zip(list_labels, list_cols))
data = dict(zipped)
df = pd.DataFrame(data)

Answer 1

When you replaced \t to blankspace, you can use read_csv to read it. But you need to wrap up your text, because the first parameter in read_csv is filepath_or_buffer which needs object with a read() method (such as a file handle or StringIO). Then your question can be transform to read_csv doesn't read the column names correctly on this file?
import requests
import pandas as pd
from io import StringIO
url = 'https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/auto-mpg/auto-mpg.data'
r = requests.get(url)
file = r.text.replace("\t"," ")
# list_labels written manually:
list_labels = ['mpg', 'cylinders', 'displacement', 'horsepower', 'weight', 'acceleration', 'model year', 'origin','car name']
df = pd.read_csv(StringIO(file),sep="\s+",header = None,names=list_labels)
with pd.option_context('display.max_rows', None, 'display.max_columns', None):
print(df)