ENH: df.astype could accept a dict of {col: type} · Issue #7271 · pandas-dev/pandas (original) (raw)

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This would be consistent with other pandas methods.

The reason I'm running into it is having some NaNs scattered across some int and bool columns, which converts to float / objects. If I discard those NaNs, it would be nice to do

df = df.astype({'my_bool', 'bool', 'my_int': 'int'})

instead of

df['my_bool'] = df.my_bool.astype('bool') df['my_int'] = df.my_int.astype('int')