Luka Peschke

Hello @dragon788, this looks good to me. If you want to propose this PR to my version of the repo I would gladly merge it.

Hi @aersam , could you please provide a bit more details on what you have in mind ? And maybe provide a few examples on how that parameter is passed...

Thanks! This seems to be doable through calamine's APIs (https://docs.rs/calamine/latest/calamine/struct.Xlsx.html#method.table_by_name) but will require quite some work, so I don't know when/if we will ship it... We might pritoritize this if...

@alexander-beedie ah good to know, thanks! How do you handle tables on read ? Is there a parameter to read a specific table ?

seem related to #209

IMO, we will have to take a design decision here, I see two paths: 1. Either we consider strings to be some kind of uber-type, on which we can fallback...

Sorry, missed the slack message, I've disabled all notifications :grimacing: Yeah, let's get 0.9.1 out asap. And I agree, having dtype enforcement is a good start, and it provides a...

FYI I'm working on #173 , which should allow to enforce a `string` dtype for a given column and convert datetime objects to strings

@armgabrielyan Hello! We just released v0.10.0 this morning. It allows to enforce a dtype for a column: https://fastexcel.toucantoco.dev/fastexcel.html#ExcelReader.load_sheet . If you want a column of mixed strings and timestamps as...

@armgabrielyan I believe it should be possible via `read_options`: https://docs.pola.rs/py-polars/html/reference/api/polars.read_excel.html as polars passes it though to `load_sheet`: https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/blob/53f55367d1428b6d4ab51a7b17a8dbf4c003ac43/py-polars/polars/io/spreadsheet/functions.py#L821