Enforce that metadata key column is a string (#601)

theosanderson · Jul 21, 2024 · 8bd595d · 8bd595d
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diff --git a/taxoniumtools/src/taxoniumtools/utils.py b/taxoniumtools/src/taxoniumtools/utils.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ def read_metadata(metadata_file, columns, key_column):
                                usecols=cols_of_interest)
         # Enable again
         warnings.filterwarnings("default")
+        metadata[key_column] = metadata[key_column].astype(str)
         metadata.set_index(key_column, inplace=True)
         # convert metadata to dict of rows
         if not metadata.index.is_unique: