to_gdx is changing Text data to Boolean

[jalidrisi]

I want to write the following data frame to gdx file

R,L
R1,L1
R10,L10
R11,L11
R12,L12
R13,L13
R2,L2
R3,L3
R4,L4
R5,L5
R6,L6
R7,L7
R8,L8
R9,L9

but the output I get in the gdx file is like this
R9,Y
R8,Y
R7,Y
R6,Y
R5,Y
R4,Y
R3,Y
R2,Y
R13,Y
R12,Y
R11,Y
R10,Y
R1,Y
R,Y

how can I keep the same string values from the dataframe ?

[elainethale]

@jalidrisi, I've implemented the ability to preserve Text information when importing GDX information to pandas DataFrame, but not vice-versa. Providing an option to preserve Text data on write should be easy to implement, but I don't have near-term plans to improve gdx-pandas myself.