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[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Feyd@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The almighty package require Expect. The muse of automation.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are two genders: string and null

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[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

Just use enums

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 day ago

Kinda started using that with polars, force the scan/read schema as string, and down the road cast as the necessary type when needed. I'm calling it "just in time" data cleaning.

make everything a string then cast all data every time you want to use that data in a variable.

[–] brashboy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it's not getting used in a mathematical function, I'm making it a string

[–] Garbagio@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

stoi and atoi got ur back, homie

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