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[DEPR]: Remove literal string/bytes input from read_excel, read_html, and read_xml #53767

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wence- opened this issue Jun 21, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #53805, #53809 or #53830
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[DEPR]: Remove literal string/bytes input from read_excel, read_html, and read_xml #53767

wence- opened this issue Jun 21, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #53805, #53809 or #53830
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wence- commented Jun 21, 2023

Following on from #52271 and #53409 (and to close out #5924), here is the state of play for IO routines in terms of what they accept as input

  • read_clipboard: doesn't take input argument
  • read_csv: pathlike, BinaryIO, StringIO
  • read_excel: pathlike, BinaryIO, engine-specific objects, literal bytes
  • read_feather: pathlike, BinaryIO
  • read_fwf: pathlike, BinaryIO, StringIO
  • read_gbq: SQL query (str)
  • read_hdf: pathlike, pytables.HDFStore
  • read_html: pathlike, BinaryIO, StringIO, literal bytes, literal string
  • read_json: pathlike, BinaryIO, StringIO, literal string (deprecated in DEPR: Deprecate literal json string input to read_json #53409)
  • read_orc: pathlike, BinaryIO
  • read_parquet: pathlike, BinaryIO
  • read_pickle: pathlike, BinaryIO
  • read_sas: pathlike, BinaryIO
  • read_spss: pathlike (pyreadstat doesn't allow reading from a buffer)
  • read_sql_query: SQL query (str)
  • read_sql_table: name of database table (str)
  • read_stata: pathlike, BinaryIO
  • read_table: pathlike, BinaryIO, StringIO
  • read_xml: pathlike, BinaryIO, StringIO, literal bytes, literal string

So some, but not all, of the textual formats support reading literally, some support reading bytes as well as strings, and some of the binary formats support reading literal bytes.

Having deprecated literal input to read_json I suggest it makes sense to therefore also do so for:

  • read_excel
  • read_html
  • read_xml
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rmhowe425 commented Jun 21, 2023

Can work on this issue, after its triaged / approved. Unless @wence- wants to take it!

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@mroeschke mroeschke added IO Data IO issues that don't fit into a more specific label Deprecate Functionality to remove in pandas labels Jun 21, 2023
@wence- wence- changed the title [DEPR]: Remove literal string/bytes input from read_excel, read_html, and read_xmlThanks for that cross-ref, to broaden the scope, here's an audit of the current state of play: [DEPR]: Remove literal string/bytes input from read_excel, read_html, and read_xml Jun 21, 2023
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@mroeschke with this completed can we close #5924?

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