Converting Data Types

Python

Shows how to convert dataframe column to different data types. We see how to convert to string, integer, float and datetime.

 1|  #GENERAL SYNTAX
 2|  df[column_name] = df[column_name].astype(data type)
 3|  
 4|  #CONVERTING TO STRING
 5|  df[column_name] = df[column_name].astype(str)
 6|  
 7|  #CONVERTING TO INTEGER
 8|  df[column_name] = df[column_name].astype(int)
 9|  
10|  #CONVERTING TO FLOAT
11|  df[column_name] = df[column_name].astype(float)
12|  
13|  #CONVERTING TO DATETIME
14|  df[column_name] = pd.to_datetime(df[column_name] )
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