pandas astype string code example

Example 1: pandas change dtype to string

df['id'].astype(str)
0    1
1    5
2    z
3    1
4    1
5    7
6    2
7    6

Example 2: series to string

pandas.Series.astype(str)

Example 3: pandas astype str still object

df['column'] = df['column'].astype('|S80') #where the max length is set at 80 bytes,