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IsDtypeValidation-issue for pandas StringDtype #39

@chrispijo

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@chrispijo

Hi. I am trying to confirm if all values in a Pandas-column are off type string. Doing this with IsDtypeValidation returns the error TypeError: Cannot interpret 'StringDtype' as a data type'. I made a topic on StackOverflow, and based on the comments I suspect that this might actually be in error in the IsDtypeValidation-class.

Is this an error? Or do I misuse the class/package?

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from pandas_schema.validation import IsDtypeValidation

series = pd.Series(["a", "b", "c"])

# Works as expected:
#   Returns a validation warning as the series is of dtype 'object' and not 'string'.
print(f"dtype = {series.dtypes}")  # Returns: dtype = object
idv = IsDtypeValidation(dtype=np.dtype(np.str))
validation_warnings = idv.get_errors(series=series)
print(validation_warnings[0])  # Returns: The column  has a dtype of object which is not a subclass of the required type <U0

# But we know that the series only contains string-values. Thus convert_dtypes() below.
# Does not work as expected:
#   Returns an error and traceback with 'TypeError: Cannot interpret 'StringDtype' as a data type'.
#   Expected output should be no error or validation warning.
series = series.convert_dtypes()
print(f"dtype = {series.dtypes}")  # Returns: dtype = string
idv = IsDtypeValidation(dtype=np.dtype(np.str))
validation_warnings = idv.get_errors(series=series)  # Error occurs in this line: 'TypeError: Cannot interpret 'StringDtype' as a data type'

Besides that, awesome work! Really handy package.

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