SNOW-2171192: Add `lowercase_columns = True` to `to_pandas()`

[sfc-gh-amiribel]

What is the current behavior?

my_df.to_pandas()

Output is a dataframe with columns all uppercases

What is the desired behavior?

Add a new lowercase_columns kwarg:

my_df.to_pandas(lowercase_columns=True)

Output is a dataframe with columns all lowercase!

This should of course be False by default to avoid any breaking change.

How would this improve snowflake-connector-python?

Just quality of life for Python users where upper case is not very common for Pandas columns.

We offer this argument in one of our internal teams project, and it has massive adoption. Probably a signal it'd be useful!

References and other background

No response

[sfc-gh-sghosh]

Hello @sfc-gh-amiribel ,

Thanks for raising the request, yes, at present its not supported in python connector, will work on it with team whether it can be supported or not and update.