Answers for "change type of pandas column"

change dataframe column type

>>> df.astype({'col1': 'int32'}).dtypes
col1    int32
col2    int64
dtype: object

convert a pandas column to int

# convert Series
my_series = pd.to_numeric(my_series)

# convert column "a" of a DataFrame
df["a"] = pd.to_numeric(df["a"])

set type of column pandas

df.astype(int)

set column datatype pandas

df = pd.read_csv("weather.tsv", sep="\t",  
                 dtype={'Day': str,'Wind':int64})
df.dtypes