Enforce dtype = str for certain columns

LAAC-LSCP / ChildProject

Python package for the management of day-long recordings of children.

https://childproject.readthedocs.io

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Enforce dtype = str for certain columns #294

Closed lucasgautheron closed 2 years ago

lucasgautheron commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

https://gin.g-node.org/EL1000/lucid/issues/4#issuecomment-1908

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ChildProject should probably enforced dtype = str for certain columns. Maybe dtype should be a new property of IndexColumn. This is already what has been done in the experimental #260 branch.

lucasgautheron commented 2 years ago

Actually, I think this move may have undesired side-effects. So, instead, I think we should use double quotes around IDs that we want to enforce as strings; This way, reading the metadata with pandas or through the package would yield identical results...