LogParser: conversion of values from string to float

    raise ImportError("Please make sure that the python3-pandas package is installed.")

def try_numeric(value):

    try:

       return int(value)

    except ValueError:

        try:

            return float(value)

        except ValueError:

            return value

class TableColumn:

    def __init__(self, level, data, parentPath=None):

        self.subcolumns = []

            col_val = {}

            for k, v in row.items():

                if len(k) == 1 and k[0] in index_names:

                    idx_itms[k[0]] = v

                    idx_itms[k[0]] = try_numeric(v)

                else:

                    col_val[k] = v

                    col_val[k] = try_numeric(v)

            # construct the index tuple

            idx = []