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Switch from CSV to TSV #3

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cthoyt opened this issue Dec 21, 2021 · 1 comment

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cthoyt commented Dec 21, 2021

There are a few major issues with CSV files:

Commas may pop up inside data, which means cells need to be quoted
There are many different flavors of quoting schemes. This is very difficult to convey
Commas themselves create a huge amount of noise when reading a CSV document

TSV uses tabs instead of commas and has none of these problems as tabs should not be in the data itself.

I think it should be possible to directly import and export the table through pandas.

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Add CI and data integrity tests for SMILES #2

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davidlmobley commented Dec 22, 2021

This is a good idea; want to do a PR?

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