Appendix: Data type mapping

The following table maps data types from 1010data to Python.

1010data type Python data type Notes
  • decimal
  • dec
  • f
 float
  • int
  • integer
  • i
 int32
  • int64
  • bigint
  • j
 int64 Python, NumPy, and pandas will generally use int64 as the default integer type.
  • text
  • alpha
  • a
 UTF-8
  • ragged array/cstring (includes JSON)
 bytes 1010 columns that contain JSON are stored as text (ragged arrays) and will be byte data in Python.
  • Package/Model
 dict
Note: Some Python JSON libraries produce bytes (such as orjson), and others produce UTF-8 (such as JSON and UltraJSON)