GDB from Pandas error

[orerocks]

As described in the GX Developer Forum, creating a GDB from a Pandas dataframe where the dataframe contains text fields throws an error since the dataframes report the text fields as dtype.type==np.object_ instead of np.str_. A simple addition to the function gx_dtype in the gxpy utility.py code avoids the error:

    if dtype.type is np.str_:
        # x4 to allow for full UTF-8 characters
        return -int(dtype.str[2:])*4
    elif dtype.type is np.object_:
        # My edit, assign length 80 to all strings
        return -int(80)

but I assume this is only a partial fix?

[orerocks]

I think a side-effect of this change is that all new fields created in the database within Geosoft default to being strings - even when numeric Channel Math or Coordinate Conversion calculations are performed.