Python version of data.table has very fast CSV parsing (compared to Pandas), and it didn't have issues like those you mention. Even if data.table had issues wit

Python version of data.table has very fast CSV parsing (compared to Pandas), and it didn't have issues like those you mention. Even if data.table had issues with CSV parsing, you could probably use Apache Arrow to parse CSV into arrow table and then convert it to data.table (but that is probably suboptimal).