Change separate types with panda methods

Question

i have this txt and want to change the dtypes of ID,Foo,Bla,Bar,Timestamp. For example i want to change ID to int64. How can i do that?

ID  Foo Bla Bar Timestamp
1   21.07   NaN 2020-15-04
2   22.07   NaN 2005-01-05
3   22.05   Baz 1970-01-01

I think this might provide some help: https://stackoverflow.com/q/21269399/2180316 — mandulaj, Jan 11 '21 at 14:04

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '21 at 14:07

Assuming that you've read the txt file into a dataframe and the column with ID in it is called "ID" you can cast that column to an int64.

import numpy as np
df.astype({'ID': np.int64})

This can help if you want more resources for converting dataframe types.

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