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Phillip Cloud edited comment on ARROW-2153 at 2/14/18 3:55 PM:
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If this is blocking you, you ca use a decimal point as a workaround:
{code}
pa.array(pd.Series([Decimal('-3.0e+1')]))
{code}
I'll put up a fix today for this.
was (Author: cpcloud):
If this is blocking you, you ca use a decimal point as a workaround:
{code}
pa.array(pd.Series([Decimal('-3.0e+1')]))
{code}
I'll put up a fix today for this.
> decimal conversion not working for exponential notation
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: ARROW-2153
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-2153
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Python
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Antony Mayi
> Priority: Major
>
> {code:java}
> import pyarrow as pa
> import pandas as pd
> import decimal
> pa.Table.from_pandas(pd.DataFrame({'a': [decimal.Decimal('1.1'),
> decimal.Decimal('2E+1')]}))
> {code}
>
> {code:java}
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "pyarrow/table.pxi", line 875, in pyarrow.lib.Table.from_pandas
> (/arrow/python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/lib.cxx:44927)
> File
> "/home/skadlec/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyarrow/pandas_compat.py",
> line 350, in dataframe_to_arrays
> convert_types)]
> File
> "/home/skadlec/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyarrow/pandas_compat.py",
> line 349, in <listcomp>
> for c, t in zip(columns_to_convert,
> File
> "/home/skadlec/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyarrow/pandas_compat.py",
> line 345, in convert_column
> return pa.array(col, from_pandas=True, type=ty)
> File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 170, in pyarrow.lib.array
> (/arrow/python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/lib.cxx:29224)
> File "pyarrow/array.pxi", line 70, in pyarrow.lib._ndarray_to_array
> (/arrow/python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/lib.cxx:28465)
> File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 77, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
> (/arrow/python/build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/lib.cxx:8270)
> pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: Expected base ten digit or decimal point but found
> 'E' instead.
> {code}
> In manual cases clearly we can write {{decimal.Decimal('20')}} instead of
> {{decimal.Decimal('2E+1')}} but during arithmetical operations inside an
> application the exponential notation can be produced out of control (it is
> actually the _normalized_ form of the decimal number) plus for some values
> the exponential notation is the only form expressing the significance so this
> should be accepted.
> The [documentation|https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html] suggests
> using following transformation but that's only possible when the significance
> information doesn't need to be kept:
> {code:java}
> def remove_exponent(d):
> return d.quantize(Decimal(1)) if d == d.to_integral() else d.normalize()
> {code}
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