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[jira] [Assigned] (ARROW-6231) [Python] Consider assigning default
column names when reading CSV file and header_rows=0
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6231?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Antoine Pitrou reassigned ARROW-6231:
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Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
> [Python] Consider assigning default column names when reading CSV file and header_rows=0
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>
> Key: ARROW-6231
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6231
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Python
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
> Assignee: Antoine Pitrou
> Priority: Major
> Labels: csv
> Fix For: 0.15.0
>
>
> This is a slight usability rough edge. Assigning default names (like "f0, f1, ...") would probably be better since then at least you can see how many columns there are and what is in them.
> {code}
> In [10]: parse_options = csv.ParseOptions(delimiter='|', header_rows=0)
> In [11]: %time table = csv.read_csv('Performance_2016Q4.txt', parse_options=parse_options)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ArrowInvalid Traceback (most recent call last)
> <timed exec> in <module>
> ~/miniconda/envs/pyarrow-14-1/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyarrow/_csv.pyx in pyarrow._csv.read_csv()
> ~/miniconda/envs/pyarrow-14-1/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyarrow/error.pxi in pyarrow.lib.check_status()
> ArrowInvalid: header_rows == 0 needs explicit column names
> {code}
> In pandas integers are used, so some kind of default string would have to be defined
> {code}
> In [18]: df = pd.read_csv('Performance_2016Q4.txt', sep='|', header=None, low_memory=False)
> In [19]: df.columns
> Out[19]:
> Int64Index([ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
> 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30],
> dtype='int64')
> {code}
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