DOC: header='infer' is not working when there is no header, closes #17473
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- [X] closes #17483


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  Lines       51378    49802    -1576     
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+ Misses       4391     4315      -76
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@jorisvandenbossche if you'd review
can you rebase
Sure thing @jreback 
@cmazzullo Seems something went wrong with the rebase (many commits included on github now). In principle if you do exactly the following (assuming pandas-dev/pandas remote is called upstream):

```
git fetch upstream
git checkout gh-17483
git rebase upstream/master
git push origin gh-17483 --force
```

this should solve it.
@cmazzullo quickly did the rebase myself. Thanks for this clarification of the docs!
Thanks!