jorisvandenbossche commented on a change in pull request #9386:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9386#discussion_r568852511
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File path: docs/source/python/csv.rst
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@@ -75,7 +75,16 @@ Customized conversion
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To alter how CSV data is converted to Arrow types and data, you should create
-a :class:`ConvertOptions` instance and pass it to :func:`read_csv`.
+a :class:`ConvertOptions` instance and pass it to :func:`read_csv`::
+
+ table = csv.read_csv('testdata.csv', convert_options=pa.csv.ConvertOptions(
+ column_types={
+ 's_name': pa.string(),
+ 's_start_date': pa.string(),
+ 'agg_percentile_bps': pa.decimal128(precision=38, scale=10),
+ }
+ ))
Review comment:
Specifically, you could maybe show to read the "total_bill" and "tip"
columns as decimal?
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