Cudf: automatically infer dtypes when using read_csv

Created on 10 Dec 2018  路  3Comments  路  Source: rapidsai/cudf

Feature request

Related to #487 (in spirit, not in technicalities), this is an issue report about reducing user surprise when interfacing with cuDF.

The pandas read_csv API does not require me to specify dtypes for my data. Even though dtype specification is an option, pandas has a sane default in which it automatically infers dtypes. To help with user adoption, this should be the default as well. As evidenced by #486, the lack of documentation reachable from a search engine was a a big stumbling block.

doc feature request

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Fixed by #478

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I will work on getting the documentation better. The API should match Pandas where specifying the dtype is optional.

That is currently in the pipeline with PR #478

Fixed by #478

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