Dropping commas from cells after updating to version 4.0.0

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Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is. After Aug 1 update it seems that cells with comma are being returned without comma. Major issue for our application.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Read spreadsheet with comma in some cells of the column. “X,Y” becomes “XY”
2. There is no way to restore comma
3. Existing utilities are not working correctly

Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen. “X,Y” should be returned as “X,Y”

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• Operating System [e.g. Linux, Windows, macOS]:
• Python version
• gspread version

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[lavigne958]

Hi @LevaL59 I found the issue.

In latest released we introduced a quick, in spreadSheet any value returned is a string, we have a function that take that string and tries to convert it to a number so users can work with int or floats in python. This function replaces comma , in the string (spreadsheet sometimes introduces comma to separate thousands, like 1,000) but it does so on the actual values.

I’ll make a PR to fix it.

[lavigne958]

@LevaL59

I plan to make some major changes in the code format, re-organize files etc, so I made a quick release for your issue. you can now use version v4.0.1 which includes the bugfix for your issue.