'Parse a single scalar of the underlying type of the converter.
For non-array converters, this is equivalent to parse.  For
array converters, this is used to parse a single
element of the array.
Parameters
value : str
value in TABLEDATA format
Returns
native : tuple (value, mask)
The value as a Numpy array or scalar, and *mask* is True
if the value is missing.'

def parse_scalar(self, value, config=None, pos=None):

    return self.parse(value, config, pos)
