Currently ENUM columns generally come to us as type_code STRING (instead of the usual type_code VAR_STRING). And we convert STRING to Pandas "string" (nullable str) type. But converting ENUM to a proper Pandas Categorical would be nice:
This would be a nice enhancement that leverages pandas' categorical functionality for better memory usage and type safety with enum data! 🎯
Currently ENUM columns generally come to us as type_code STRING (instead of the usual type_code VAR_STRING). And we convert STRING to Pandas "string" (nullable str) type. But converting ENUM to a proper Pandas Categorical would be nice:
This would be a nice enhancement that leverages pandas' categorical functionality for better memory usage and type safety with enum data! 🎯