How to convert pandas dataframe columns to native python data types?

"Native Python type" to pandas (or to numpy) is an object. That's the extent of it. Pandas only knows it's a Python object and act accordingly. Other than that, you cannot have columns of type string, unicode, integers etc.

You can have object columns and store whatever you want inside them, though. Pandas will handle most of the conversion for you at this stage.

df = pd.DataFrame({'A': [1, 2], 
                   'B': [1., 2.], 
                   'C': [1 + 2j, 3 + 4j], 
                   'D': [True, False], 
                   'E': ['a', 'b'], 
                   'F': [b'a', b'b']})

df.dtypes
Out[71]: 
A         int64
B       float64
C    complex128
D          bool
E        object
F        object
dtype: object

for col in df:
    print(type(df.loc[0, col]))

<class 'numpy.int64'>
<class 'numpy.float64'>
<class 'numpy.complex128'>
<class 'numpy.bool_'>
<class 'str'>
<class 'bytes'>

---

df = df.astype('object')

for col in df:
    print(type(df.loc[0, col]))

<class 'int'>
<class 'float'>
<class 'complex'>
<class 'bool'>
<class 'str'>
<class 'bytes'>