typecast a column in pandas code example
Example 1: change dataframe column type
>>> df.astype({'col1': 'int32'}).dtypes
col1 int32
col2 int64
dtype: object
Example 2: set type of column pandas
df.astype(int)
>>> df.astype({'col1': 'int32'}).dtypes
col1 int32
col2 int64
dtype: object
df.astype(int)