int astype code example
Example 1: 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"])
Example 2: set column datatype pandas
df = pd.read_csv("weather.tsv", sep="\t",
dtype={'Day': str,'Wind':int64})
df.dtypes