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plotly wrongly automatically converts strings to integers if possible #7147

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toolslive opened this issue Sep 10, 2024 · 2 comments
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plotly wrongly automatically converts strings to integers if possible #7147

toolslive opened this issue Sep 10, 2024 · 2 comments

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@toolslive
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<head>
    <script src='https://cdn.plot.ly/plotly-2.35.0.min.js'></script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id='myDiv'>
    </div>
    <script>
     //var x = [1,2,3,4] // interpreted as number
     //var x = ['a','b','c', 'd']; // used as labels
     var x = ['-1','1e1', '0x64']; // now they're numbers :(
     var trace1 = {
         x: x,
         y: [10, 15, 13, 17],
         type: 'scatter'
     };

     var trace2 = {
         x: x,
         y: [16, 5, 11, 9],
         type: 'scatter'
     };

     var data = [trace1, trace2];

     Plotly.newPlot('myDiv', data);

    </script>
</body>

plotly_ducktyping

It should just use strings as labels (just like what happens when x= ['a','b','c','d'] ).
A simple work around is to prefix the strings with &nbsp; to sabotage the convertion.
@toolslive toolslive changed the title plotly, wrongly automatically converts strings to integers if possible plotly wrongly automatically converts strings to integers if possible Sep 10, 2024
@my-tien
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my-tien commented Sep 10, 2024

You can set layout.xaxis.type = 'category' to keep the strings.

@alexcjohnson
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You can also set layout.autotypenumbers = 'strict' (which is currently in the default plotly.py template, but in plain plotly.js the default is 'convert types') https://plotly.com/javascript/reference/layout/#layout-autotypenumbers

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