Parse large floats in CSVs that have periods as the thousands separator #18797
Labels
A-io-csv
Area: reading/writing CSV files
enhancement
New feature or an improvement of an existing feature
Description
It's great to see that polars now supports reading from CSV files where the decimal separator is a comma, thanks for that!
Unfortunately, in the countries where usage of a decimal comma is common, you frequently encounter the period used as a thousands separator e.g.
1.299,99
, andread_csv()
(and I assumescan_csv()
too) doesn't currently cope with this.It would be nice to be able to specify a thousands separator, or to simply automatically parse
.
as a thousands separator when the user has passeddecimal_comma=True
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