pandas coerce float code example

Example 1: convert column to numeric pandas

# convert all columns of DataFrame
df = df.apply(pd.to_numeric) # convert all columns of DataFrame

# convert just columns "a" and "b"
df[["a", "b"]] = df[["a", "b"]].apply(pd.to_numeric)

Example 2: python: transform as type numeirc

df['myvar'] = df['myvar'].astype(str)   # Transform as character
df['myvar'] = df['myvar'].astype(float) # Transform as float
df['myvar'] = df['myvar'].astype(int)   # Transform as numeric