I have a pandas.DataFrame that contain string, float and int types.
Is there a way to set all strings that cannot be converted to float to NaN ?
For example:
A B C D
0 1 2 5 7
1 0 4 NaN 15
2 4 8 9 10
3 11 5 8 0
4 11 5 8 "wajdi"
to:
A B C D
0 1 2 5 7
1 0 4 NaN 15
2 4 8 9 10
3 11 5 8 0
4 11 5 8 NaN
You can use pd.to_numeric and set errors='coerce'
df['D'] = pd.to_numeric(df.D, errors='coerce')
Which will give you:
A B C D
0 1 2 5.0 7.0
1 0 4 NaN 15.0
2 4 8 9.0 10.0
3 11 5 8.0 0.0
4 11 5 8.0 NaN
Deprecated solution (pandas <= 0.20 only):
df.convert_objects(convert_numeric=True)
pandas.DataFrame.convert_objects
Here's the dev note in the convert_objects source code: # TODO: Remove in 0.18 or 2017, which ever is sooner. So don't make this a long term solution if you use it.
Here is a way:
df['E'] = pd.to_numeric(df.D, errors='coerce')
And then you have:
A B C D E
0 1 2 5.0 7 7.0
1 0 4 NaN 15 15.0
2 4 8 9.0 10 10.0
3 11 5 8.0 0 0.0
4 11 5 8.0 wajdi NaN
You can use pd.to_numeric with errors='coerce'.
In [30]: df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [1, 2, 'NaN', 'bob', 3.2]})
In [31]: pd.to_numeric(df.a, errors='coerce')
Out[31]:
0 1.0
1 2.0
2 NaN
3 NaN
4 3.2
Name: a, dtype: float64
Here is one way to apply it to all columns:
for c in df.columns:
df[c] = pd.to_numeric(df[c], errors='coerce')
(See comment by NinjaPuppy for a better way.)
df.apply(lambda L: pd.to_numeric(L, errors='coerce'))...