MurrayData opened a new issue, #38842:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/38842
### Describe the enhancement requested
I have a problem with a regaulr data source in that it often contains
embedded commas, but fields are not quoted.
I have a workaround for this, using string manipulation to correct it, then
io.BytesIO to pass the corrected data to pyarrow.csv.read_csv
````
tables = []
schema = pa.schema({c:'str' for c in columns})
print(schema)
convert_options = pa.csv.ConvertOptions(column_types=schema)
nfixed = 0
for f in files:
lines = ','.join(columns)+'\n'
with open(f) as infile:
for line in infile:
if line.count(',') > 15:
index = -1
for i in range(5):
index = line.find(',', index+1)
nfixed += 1
#print(f'Fixed {line} {line.count(",")} {index}
{line[index]}')
line = line[:index] + ' ' + line[index+1:]
lines += line
print('File', f)
table_file = io.BytesIO(bytes(lines, encoding='utf8'))
table = pa.csv.read_csv(table_file, convert_options=convert_options)
print(table.shape)
tables += [table]
print(f'Fixed: {nfixed}')
````
It would be good if invalid_row_handler is allowed to return a tuple
containing the fixed version of the row to include in the table, for example:
````
def row_handler(row):
new_row = row[:4]
new_row[5] = f'{row[4]} {row[5]}'.strip()
new_row[6:] = row[7:]
return new_row
````
### Component(s)
Python
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