[FEA] Pass column indices as `index_col` in `read_csv`
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If I want to use the index_col parameter to set certain columns as indices when reading a csv file, I cannot pass a list of column indices (like in pandas). I can pass a list of column labels though:
cudf.read_csv(filepath, index_col=[0])
KeyError: 'None of [0] are in the columns'
cudf.read_csv(filepath, index_col=['family'])
While this is not a huge issue, I imagine the following is a common scenario: You have know that the first 3 columns are index columns, but you don't exactly know how each are spelt ('date' vs 'Date' etc.). In this case, if passing a list of column indices were possible, index_col=[0,1,2] would have worked fine; otherwise, you will have to read the file without specifying index columns and set index later (or require trial and error to guess the column labels).
Is it possible for index_col to accept list of indices like in pandas?