How can we change data type of a data frame column from object to string in python?

Question

I was taking all categorical variables using

numerical = map_quest._get_numeric_data().columns
categorical = list(set(map_quest.columns) - set(numerical))

Using this, the 'Description' column (which contains description of that particular record) is also getting considered as 'object' which I don't want. I don't want to drop Description either as I would like to use it for later purpose.

Is there any way we can convert 'Description' column to string?

Answer 1

df.astype({"Description": str})

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