I am writing a pandas df to a csv. When I write it to a csv file, some of the elements in one of the columns are being incorrectly converted to scientific notation/numbers. For example, col_1
has strings such as '104D59'
in it. The strings are mostly represented as strings in the csv file, as they should be. However, occasional strings, such as '104E59'
, are being converted into scientific notation (e.g., 1.04 E 61) and represented as integers in the ensuing csv file.
I am trying to export the csv file into a software package (i.e., pandas -> csv -> software_new) and this change in data type is causing problems with that export.
Is there a way to write the df to a csv, ensuring that all elements in df['problem_col']
are represented as string in the resulting csv or not converted to scientific notation?
Here is the code I have used to write the pandas df to a csv:
df.to_csv('df.csv', encoding='utf-8')
I also check the dtype of the problem column:
for df.dtype, df['problem_column'] is an object
For python 3.xx (
Python 3.7.2
)&
In [2]: pd.__version__
Out[2]: '0.23.4'
:
For visualization of the dataframe pandas.set_option
import pandas as pd #import pandas package
# for visualisation fo the float data once we read the float data:
pd.set_option('display.html.table_schema', True) # to can see the dataframe/table as a html
pd.set_option('display.precision', 5) # setting up the precision point so can see the data how looks, here is 5
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(20,4)* 10 ** -12) # create random dataframe
df.dtypes # check datatype for columns
[output]:
0 float64
1 float64
2 float64
3 float64
dtype: object
df # output of the dataframe
[output]:
0 1 2 3
0 -2.01082e-12 1.25911e-12 1.05556e-12 -5.68623e-13
1 -6.87126e-13 1.91950e-12 5.25925e-13 3.72696e-13
2 -1.48068e-12 6.34885e-14 -1.72694e-12 1.72906e-12
3 -5.78192e-14 2.08755e-13 6.80525e-13 1.49018e-12
4 -9.52408e-13 1.61118e-13 2.09459e-13 2.10940e-13
5 -2.30242e-13 -1.41352e-13 2.32575e-12 -5.08936e-13
6 1.16233e-12 6.17744e-13 1.63237e-12 1.59142e-12
7 1.76679e-13 -1.65943e-12 2.18727e-12 -8.45242e-13
8 7.66469e-13 1.29017e-13 -1.61229e-13 -3.00188e-13
9 9.61518e-13 9.71320e-13 8.36845e-14 -6.46556e-13
10 -6.28390e-13 -1.17645e-12 -3.59564e-13 8.68497e-13
11 3.12497e-13 2.00065e-13 -1.10691e-12 -2.94455e-12
12 -1.08365e-14 5.36770e-13 1.60003e-12 9.19737e-13
13 -1.85586e-13 1.27034e-12 -1.04802e-12 -3.08296e-12
14 1.67438e-12 7.40403e-14 3.28035e-13 5.64615e-14
15 -5.31804e-13 -6.68421e-13 2.68096e-13 8.37085e-13
16 -6.25984e-13 1.81094e-13 -2.68336e-13 1.15757e-12
17 7.38247e-13 -1.76528e-12 -4.72171e-13 -3.04658e-13
18 -1.06099e-12 -1.31789e-12 -2.93676e-13 -2.40465e-13
19 1.38537e-12 9.18101e-13 5.96147e-13 -2.41401e-12
df.to_csv('estc.csv',sep=',', float_format='%.15f') # write with precision .15
,0,1,2,3
0,-0.000000000002011,0.000000000001259,0.000000000001056,-0.000000000000569
1,-0.000000000000687,0.000000000001919,0.000000000000526,0.000000000000373
2,-0.000000000001481,0.000000000000063,-0.000000000001727,0.000000000001729
3,-0.000000000000058,0.000000000000209,0.000000000000681,0.000000000001490
4,-0.000000000000952,0.000000000000161,0.000000000000209,0.000000000000211
5,-0.000000000000230,-0.000000000000141,0.000000000002326,-0.000000000000509
6,0.000000000001162,0.000000000000618,0.000000000001632,0.000000000001591
7,0.000000000000177,-0.000000000001659,0.000000000002187,-0.000000000000845
8,0.000000000000766,0.000000000000129,-0.000000000000161,-0.000000000000300
9,0.000000000000962,0.000000000000971,0.000000000000084,-0.000000000000647
10,-0.000000000000628,-0.000000000001176,-0.000000000000360,0.000000000000868
11,0.000000000000312,0.000000000000200,-0.000000000001107,-0.000000000002945
12,-0.000000000000011,0.000000000000537,0.000000000001600,0.000000000000920
13,-0.000000000000186,0.000000000001270,-0.000000000001048,-0.000000000003083
14,0.000000000001674,0.000000000000074,0.000000000000328,0.000000000000056
15,-0.000000000000532,-0.000000000000668,0.000000000000268,0.000000000000837
16,-0.000000000000626,0.000000000000181,-0.000000000000268,0.000000000001158
17,0.000000000000738,-0.000000000001765,-0.000000000000472,-0.000000000000305
18,-0.000000000001061,-0.000000000001318,-0.000000000000294,-0.000000000000240
19,0.000000000001385,0.000000000000918,0.000000000000596,-0.000000000002414
df.to_csv('estc.csv',sep=',', float_format='%f') # this will remove the extra zeros after the '.'