[jira] [Created] (ARROW-5195) read_csv ignores null_values on string types

[Scott Burns (JIRA)]

Scott Burns created ARROW-5195:
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             Summary: read_csv ignores null_values on string types
                 Key: ARROW-5195
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5195
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Python
    Affects Versions: 0.13.0
         Environment: Python 3.6, PyArrow 0.13.0, AWS linux, debian-slim in 
docker
            Reporter: Scott Burns


Let's write a simple CSV with NULL values in a string column:
{quote}with open('foo.csv', 'w') as fobj:
     fobj.write('col1,col2\n1,value\n2,NULL')
 table = csv.read_csv('foo.csv')
 table.column('col2').null_count # => 0
{quote}
 
 table.column('col2').null_count will be 0, I think it should be 1. Passing in 
{{ConvertOptions(null_values=["NULL"])}} doesn't help.

 

Note that {{pandas.read_csv}} parses these NULLs correctly so I have a 
workaround available.

But I'd prefer to natively read CSV from pyarrow if possible :)



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