# Setting types for import\_table

**URL:** <https://discuss.hail.is/t/setting-types-for-import-table/730>\
**Category:** Help \[0.1\]\
**Created:** [October 29, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/setting-types-for-import-table/730 "2018-10-29T10:00:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mathias\_Hansen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mathias\_Hansen](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Mathias_Hansen)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/setting-types-for-import-table/730/1 "2018-10-29T10:00:16Z")

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Following your documentation:

[https://hail.is/docs/0.1/hail.HailContext.html?highlight=import\_table](https://hail.is/docs/0.1/hail.HailContext.html?highlight=import_table)

I try and set types of the imported columns, I get the following error:

 ![40](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/hail/original/1X/177f0adde966cc3cc6e52978fda7309dc05e541c.png)

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**Author:** ![tpoterba](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.hail.is/tpoterba/32/61_2.png) [@tpoterba](https://discuss.hail.is/u/tpoterba)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/setting-types-for-import-table/730/2 "2018-10-29T10:25:31Z")

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did you import everything? `from hail import *`?

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**Author:** ![Mathias\_Hansen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mathias\_Hansen](https://discuss.hail.is/u/Mathias_Hansen)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/setting-types-for-import-table/730/3 "2018-10-29T11:34:44Z")

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Thank you, that worked. I used “import hail” and thought that would work.