Fix pandas-dev#25099 set na_rep values before converting to string to prevent data truncation

Author: kinow

pandas/core/internals/blocks.py

@@ -739,7 +739,10 @@ def to_native_types(self, slicer=None, na_rep='nan', quoting=None,
         mask = isna(values)
 
         if not self.is_object and not quoting:
-            values = values.astype(str)
+            if na_rep and isinstance(na_rep, str):
+                values = values.astype("<U{length}".format(length=len(na_rep)))
+            else:
+                values = values.astype(str)
         else:
             values = np.array(values, dtype='object')
 

pandas/tests/io/formats/test_to_csv.py

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 from pandas import DataFrame, compat
 from pandas.util import testing as tm
 
+from io import StringIO
+
 
 class TestToCSV(object):
 
@@ -561,3 +563,20 @@ def test_to_csv_compression(self, compression_only,
             result = pd.read_csv(path, index_col=0,
                                  compression=read_compression)
             tm.assert_frame_equal(result, df)
+
+    def test_to_csv_na_rep_long_string(self, capsys):
+        # see gh-25099
+        df = pd.DataFrame({"c": [float('nan')] * 3})
+        df = df.astype("Int64")
+        expected_rows = ['c',
+                         'mynull',
+                         'mynull',
+                         'mynull']
+        expected = tm.convert_rows_list_to_csv_str(expected_rows)
+
+        csv_output = StringIO()
+        df.to_csv(csv_output, index=False, na_rep='mynull', encoding='ascii')
+        result = csv_output.getvalue()
+
+        assert result == expected
+