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ENH: Allow read_csv dtype to accept category #10551

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sinhrks opened this issue Jul 11, 2015 · 1 comment
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ENH: Allow read_csv dtype to accept category #10551

sinhrks opened this issue Jul 11, 2015 · 1 comment
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sinhrks commented Jul 11, 2015

Like R's stringsAsFactors, it is nice to create category when read data. Currently, it raises TypeError.

import pandas as pd
import StringIO
pd.read_csv(StringIO.StringIO("""A, B
a, c
b, d"""), dtype={'A': 'category'})
# TypeError: data type "category" not understood
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sinhrks commented Jul 11, 2015

Ah, dupe of #10153.

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