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How to Convert CSV Column Types While Reading in Python

Read a CSV file and automatically convert column values to int, float, str, or bool based on type suffixes in the header names.

csv type-conversion file-io
Python
import csv
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any

def read_csv_with_types(filepath: str) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
    """Read CSV and convert column types based on header suffixes."""
    converters = {
        "int": int,
        "float": float,
        "str": str,
        "bool": lambda v: v.strip().lower(…
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Files & data easy

How to Handle Missing Values in a CSV Numeric Column in Python

Clean missing entries in a CSV numeric column by filling them with the mean, median, a custom value, or dropping rows.

csv data-cleaning statistics
Python
import csv
from pathlib import Path
import statistics

def clean_csv_numeric(input_path: str, output_path: str, column: str, strategy: str = "mean") -> None:
    """
    Handles missing values in a numeric column of a CSV file.
    Strategies: 'mean', 'median', 'drop', or 'fill' with a specified value.
    """
    row…
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