Merge pull request #5418 from Microsoft/rchiodo/release_update_2

Fix sorting of number only lists (#5416)

Author: rchiodo

news/2 Fixes/5414.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix sorting of lists with numbers and missing entries.

pythonFiles/datascience/getJupyterVariableDataFrameInfo.py

@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@
     _VSCODE_columnTypes = []
     _VSCODE_columnNames = []
     if _VSCODE_targetVariable['type'] == 'list':
-        _VSCODE_columnTypes = ['string'] # Might be able to be more specific here?
-        _VSCODE_columnNames = ['_VSCode_JupyterValuesColumn']
+        _VSCODE_evalResult = _VSCODE_pd.DataFrame(_VSCODE_evalResult)
+        _VSCODE_columnTypes = list(_VSCODE_evalResult.dtypes)
+        _VSCODE_columnNames = list(_VSCODE_evalResult)
     elif _VSCODE_targetVariable['type'] == 'Series':
         _VSCODE_evalResult = _VSCODE_pd.Series.to_frame(_VSCODE_evalResult)
         _VSCODE_columnTypes = list(_VSCODE_evalResult.dtypes)

pythonFiles/datascience/getJupyterVariableDataFrameRows.py

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # Assume we have a dataframe. If not, turn our eval result into a dataframe
 _VSCODE_df = _VSCODE_evalResult
 if (_VSCODE_targetVariable['type'] == 'list'):
-    _VSCODE_df = _VSCODE_pd.DataFrame({'_VSCode_JupyterValuesColumn':_VSCODE_evalResult})
+    _VSCODE_df = _VSCODE_pd.DataFrame(_VSCODE_evalResult)
 elif (_VSCODE_targetVariable['type'] == 'Series'):
     _VSCODE_df = _VSCODE_pd.Series.to_frame(_VSCODE_evalResult)
 elif _VSCODE_targetVariable['type'] == 'dict':

src/datascience-ui/data-explorer/mainPanel.tsx

@@ -366,8 +366,8 @@ export class MainPanel extends React.Component<IMainPanelProps, IMainPanelState>
         // or it will take too long
         const comparer = isStringColumn ?
             (a: any, b: any): number => {
-                const aVal = a[sortColumn] as string;
-                const bVal = b[sortColumn] as string;
+                const aVal = a[sortColumn] ? a[sortColumn].toString() : '';
+                const bVal = b[sortColumn] ? b[sortColumn].toString() : '';
                 const aStr = aVal ? aVal.substring(0, Math.min(aVal.length, MaxStringCompare)) : aVal;
                 const bStr = bVal ? bVal.substring(0, Math.min(bVal.length, MaxStringCompare)) : bVal;
                 const result = aStr > bStr ? -1 : 1;