The field contains numbers of any kind including decimals. Read more in Table Schema Standard.
from frictionless import Schema, extract, fields
data = [['name'], ['1.1'], ['2.2'], ['3.3']]
rows = extract(data, schema=Schema(fields=[fields.NumberField(name='name')]))
print(rows)
{'memory': [{'name': Decimal('1.1')}, {'name': Decimal('2.2')}, {'name': Decimal('3.3')}]}
Field representation
(*, name: str, title: Optional[str] = None, description: Optional[str] = None, format: str = default, missing_values: List[str] = NOTHING, constraints: Dict[str, Any] = NOTHING, rdf_type: Optional[str] = None, example: Optional[str] = None, schema: Optional[Schema] = None, bare_number: bool = True, float_number: bool = False, decimal_char: str = ., group_char: str = ) -> None
It specifies that the value is a bare number. If true, the pattern to remove non digit character does not get applied and vice versa. The default value is True.
bool
It specifies that the value is a float number.
bool
It specifies the char to be used as decimal character. The default value is ".". It values can be: ".", "@" etc.
str
It specifies the char to be used as group character. The default value is "". It can take values such as: ",", "#" etc.
str