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numbers as categories should equal their string representations

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I would expect this to generate 3 categories (a, b, 1) but it generates 4 - two identical 1’s:

Plotly.newPlot(gd,[{x:['a','b',1,'1'],y:[1,2,3,4]}],{xaxis:{type:'category'}})

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monferacommented, Mar 10, 2017

Generally I’m not an advocate of automatic type coercions so if asked yesterday, I’d have said, expecting 4 things would seem natural. Coercing to strings will make it sort them as strings by default, e.g. “2” > “10”. But based on the above discussion it looks like coercion would be the more natural fit for the library and I have no overriding argument of any kind.

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etpinardcommented, Mar 30, 2018

Found this. Will be fixed as part of https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/pull/2489

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