pandas 0.8.1 documentation

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What’s New
Installation
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Package overview
Intro to Data Structures
Essential basic functionality
Indexing and selecting data
Computational tools
Working with missing data
Group By: split-apply-combine
Merge, join, and concatenate
Reshaping and Pivot Tables
Time Series / Date functionality
Plotting with matplotlib
IO Tools (Text, CSV, HDF5, ...)
Sparse data structures
Caveats and Gotchas
rpy2 / R interface
Related Python libraries
Comparison with R / R libraries
API Reference

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pandas.DataFrame.astype¶

DataFrame.astype(dtype)¶

Cast object to input numpy.dtype

Parameters :	dtype : numpy.dtype or Python type
Returns :	casted : type of caller

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