From 40097893840f3067c03f187366ff0ff7a15c2d36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pietro Battiston Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 13:14:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: strings longer than min_itemsize are not truncated --- doc/source/io.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/source/io.rst b/doc/source/io.rst index 36d4bd89261c4..415e1a7ddaf07 100644 --- a/doc/source/io.rst +++ b/doc/source/io.rst @@ -2808,8 +2808,8 @@ Storing Mixed Types in a Table ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Storing mixed-dtype data is supported. Strings are stored as a -fixed-width using the maximum size of the appended column. Subsequent -appends will truncate strings at this length. +fixed-width using the maximum size of the appended column. Subsequent attempts +at appending longer strings will raise a ``ValueError``. Passing ``min_itemsize={`values`: size}`` as a parameter to append will set a larger minimum for the string columns. Storing ``floats,