BUG: read_csv with list causes segfault

[camillescott]

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd

test = ['test.csv']
pd.read_csv(test)

Issue Description

Running this code results in an immediate segfault. Specifying engine = 'python' does not, so presumably bad data is passed to the C engine. If test is a dict, set, or numpy.ndarray, a ValueError is raised as expected.

We discovered this error in a Snakemake rule, where the user passed input, which by default a list, directly to read_csv in a run block. Given Snakemake's popularity, this seems like something that could pop up fairly often.

Expected Behavior

It should raise a ValueError.

Installed Versions

My environment seems to break with this.

File ~/miniconda/envs/dissertation/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/init.py:8, in
5 import os
6 import re
----> 8 import _distutils_hack.override # noqa: F401
10 import distutils.core
11 from distutils.errors import DistutilsOptionError

File ~/miniconda/envs/dissertation/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_distutils_hack/override.py:1, in
----> 1 import('_distutils_hack').do_override()

File ~/miniconda/envs/dissertation/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_distutils_hack/init.py:71, in do_override()
69 if enabled():
70 warn_distutils_present()
---> 71 ensure_local_distutils()

File ~/miniconda/envs/dissertation/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_distutils_hack/init.py:59, in ensure_local_distutils()
57 # check that submodules load as expected
58 core = importlib.import_module('distutils.core')
---> 59 assert '_distutils' in core.file, core.file

AssertionError: /home/camille/miniconda/envs/dissertation/lib/python3.8/distutils/core.py

[mroeschke]

Thanks for the report. This was a duplicate of #45957 which was fixed in #46325, planned to be released in 1.4.2 soon