Trying to keep the same type after saving a dataframe in a csv file

Trying to keep the same type after saving a dataframe in a csv file

2024/11/16 19:57:41

When I try to get my dataframe out of the csv file the type of the data changed. Is there a way I can avoid this?

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Answer

CSVs are text files so don't inherently contain meta-data like datatypes.

When you're opening the CSV you've saved, Python/Pandas is interpreting what it thinks the datatypes are - presumably it's getting it slightly wrong compared to what you want (this is what's happening rather than your CSV being saved with the wrong datatypes).

Pandas 'read_csv' has a 'dtype' argument which will take a dictionary of column types. This should let you specify what data types you'd like. I'd suggest reading through the function documentation here.

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