pandas.DataFrame.convert_objects

DataFrame.convert_objects(convert_dates=True, convert_numeric=False, copy=True)

Attempt to infer better dtype for object columns

Parameters:

convert_dates : if True, attempt to soft convert_dates, if ‘coerce’, force conversion (and non-convertibles get NaT)

convert_numeric : if True attempt to coerce to numerbers (including strings), non-convertibles get NaN

copy : Boolean, if True, return copy, default is True

Returns:

converted : asm as input object