r/pycharm 20h ago

String values in Parquet Plugins displayed as numbers (and not as text).

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The Avro and parquet viewer and Parquet loader plugins are diplaying String values in numeric form, although they are stored as text using Polars/Pyarrow engine .

pyarrow 20.0.0

pyarrow-hotfix 0.7

polars 1.35.2

polars-runtime-32 1.35.2

String values are displayed correctly as text when parquet file is accessed and displayed in terminal output and tkinter ui .

Ticker dtype: String
date dtype: Date
Sample Ticker: CANADIAN_DOLLAR
Sample date: 2026-06-16