For a long time, I knew I was dropping this gene [1] from my analyses because pandas automatically converted its name to a floating point. With the right combin

For a long time, I knew I was dropping this gene [1] from my analyses because pandas automatically converted its name to a floating point. With the right combination of flags I was able to get it to work right, but even real programming languages are not immune. [1]http://flybase.org/reports/FBgn0036414.html http://flybase.org/reports/FBgn0036414.html - short symbol is "nan"