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filmor opened this issue Jan 24, 2014 · 5 comments · Fixed by #6406
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df.to_csv should mirror df.to_html #6061

filmor opened this issue Jan 24, 2014 · 5 comments · Fixed by #6406
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Enhancement IO CSV read_csv, to_csv Output-Formatting __repr__ of pandas objects, to_string
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filmor commented Jan 24, 2014

If no path_or_buf argument is given DataFrame.to_csv should return a string.
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jreback commented Jan 24, 2014

hah....we've had many discussions about this....its actually a bad API @y-p !

use a StringIO(data) if you want to do this

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jreback commented Jan 24, 2014

@filmor sorry thought you were talking about to_csv.....yes..marking this an an enhancement...

PR's are welcome

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jreback commented Jan 24, 2014

you can of course just pass a StringIO here as well...eg.

buf=StringIO()
df.to_csv(buf, ....)

then buf.getvalue() is your string

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filmor commented Jan 24, 2014

I know, this was more about removing one small api-wtf ;)
I'll look into making a PR this weekend.

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jreback commented Feb 18, 2014

@filmor PR for this?

@jreback jreback modified the milestones: 0.15.0, 0.14.0 Feb 18, 2014
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@jreback jreback modified the milestones: 0.14.0, 0.15.0 Mar 1, 2014
filmor added a commit to filmor/pandas that referenced this issue Mar 9, 2014
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Make to_csv return a string in case no buffer is supplied.
cf691ab 
Fixes issue pandas-dev#6061.
gouthambs pushed a commit to gouthambs/pandas that referenced this issue Mar 12, 2014
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Make to_csv return a string in case no buffer is supplied.
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Fixes issue pandas-dev#6061.
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