fixed Pandas 2.0 interpreting valid string "None" as NaN (NoneType)

Author: Snooz82

setup.cfg

@@ -1,3 +1,41 @@
-from setuptools import setup  # type: ignore
+from setuptools import setup
+from setuptools import find_packages
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
 
-setup()
+
+with Path("Readme.rst").open(encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+    long_description = fh.read()
+
+with (Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "src" / "DataDriver" / "DataDriver.py").open(encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    VERSION = re.search('\n__version__ = "(.*)"', f.read()).group(1)
+
+setup(
+    name="robotframework-datadriver",
+    version=VERSION,
+    author="René Rohner(Snooz82)",
+    author_email="snooz@posteo.de",
+    description="A library for Data-Driven Testing.",
+    long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type="text/x-rst",
+    url="https://github.com/Snooz82/robotframework-datadriver",
+    package_dir={"": "src"},
+    packages=find_packages("src"),
+    classifiers=[
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
+        "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+        "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
+        "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+        "Topic :: Software Development :: Testing",
+        "Topic :: Software Development :: Testing :: Acceptance",
+        "Framework :: Robot Framework",
+    ],
+    install_requires=["robotframework >= 4.0.2", "docutils", "Pygments"],
+    extras_require={"xls": ["pandas", "xlrd >= 1.2.0", "openpyxl"]},
+    python_requires=">=3.7.12",
+)

setup.py

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     warn,
 )
 
-__version__ = "1.7.0"
+__version__ = "1.8.0"
 
 
 class DataDriver:

src/DataDriver/DataDriver.py

@@ -41,5 +41,5 @@ def get_data_from_source(self):
 
     def read_data_frame_from_file(self, dtype):
         return pd.read_excel(
-            self.file, sheet_name=self.sheet_name, dtype=dtype, engine="openpyxl"
+            self.file, sheet_name=self.sheet_name, dtype=dtype, engine="openpyxl", na_filter=False
         ).replace(nan, "", regex=True)