Data Explorer strips leading or trailing whitespace from column names.

[jthomasmock]

Positron Dev Version: 2024.05.0 build 0
Code - OSS Version: 1.89.0
Commit: Unknown
Date: Unknown
Electron: 28.2.8
Chromium: 120.0.6099.291
Node.js: 18.18.2
V8: 12.0.267.19-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.4.0

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Create a dataframe with whitespace in front of the actual name

example <- data.frame(1:10, 1:10, 1:10)

names(example) <- c("age1", "               age2", "age3")

import pandas as pd

lead_ws = pd.DataFrame({"          leading_whitespace": [1,2,3], 
                       "trailing whitespace               ": [1,2,3]})
%view lead_ws

2. Open it in the Data Explorer

3. Note that all the leading and trailing whitespace has been stripped.

What did you expect to happen?

We should honor the exact name of the column.

Were there any error messages in the output or Developer Tools console?

[jonvanausdeln]

I notice that this strips excessive whitespace inside of a column name.

import pandas as pd

lead_ws = pd.DataFrame({"          leading_whitespace": [1,2,3], 
                       "trailing whitespace               ": [1,2,3],
                       "middle                 whitespace": [1,2,3]})

Would you like a new issue on this?

[wesm]

Yes, please open a new issue for that. I don't believe that the change I made affects formatting of whitespace in the middle, so if we want to fix that we'll have to do some more work (e.g. using middle dots for anything more than a single space).

[jonvanausdeln]

Verified Fixed

Positron Version(s) : 2025.01.0-152
OS Version(s) : Windows 11

Test scenario(s)

Leading and trailing spaces are preserved as expected.

Link(s) to TestRail test cases run or created: