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Tips and Traps¶

1. You can use the method Series.astype to cast the type of a series.

2. Series.astype(str) converts NaNs to the string literal nan. This is often NOT what people want. A better way is to use Series.astype(object) instead.

References¶

• pandas.DataFrame.astype

• pandas.DataFrame.convert_dtypes