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When reading CSV, float-like strings lacking exponent digits are accepted as floats #12237

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bennorth opened this issue Feb 5, 2016 · 2 comments
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When reading CSV, float-like strings lacking exponent digits are accepted as floats #12237

bennorth opened this issue Feb 5, 2016 · 2 comments
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bennorth commented Feb 5, 2016

The data-frame

DataFrame({'x': [2.5], 'y': [42], 'z': ['2E']})

does not round-trip correctly via CSV. The string '2E' is interpreted as a valid float, but it should not be (according to man strtod(3), which seems a reasonable spec).
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bennorth commented Feb 5, 2016

Work underway in #12215.

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gfyoung commented Aug 21, 2016

@jreback : This should be closed since #12215 was merged in.

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