I have a dataframe
dfooc
Name AddressId
XYZ nan
ABC <memory at 0x7f145136ca10>
HIJ nan
How do I convert this AddressId column to float type?
it is currently –
Name: AddressId, Length: 346498, dtype: object
I tried
dfooc['AddressId'] = int(float(dfooc['AddressId']))
raise TypeError(f"cannot convert the series to {converter}")
TypeError: cannot convert the series to <class 'float'>
I am converting this to float because if i let this be as it is, im unable to get this columns data into SQL server and im guessing its because SQL server doesnt like ‘<memory at 0x7f145136ca10>’
>Solution :
You can do :
dfooc['AddressId'] = dfooc['AddressId'].astype('float', errors = 'ignore')
errors control raising of exceptions on invalid data for provided dtype according to the documentation, set to ignore, it will ssuppress exceptions and on error return original object (i.e. nan).
Or you can fillna first and then convert the series to float :
dfooc['AddressId'].fillna(0, inplace = True)
dfooc['AddressId'] = dfooc['AddressId'].astype('float')