change dataframe column type

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how to convert data type of a column in pandas -

# You can use "astype" method
# suppose you want to correct your "sales" column data type
df['sales'] = df['sales'].astype('float64')

change dataframe column type -

>>> df.astype({'col1': 'int32'}).dtypes
col1    int32
col2    int64
dtype: object

set column datatype pandas -

df = pd.read_csv("weather.tsv", sep="\t",  
                 dtype={'Day': str,'Wind':int64})
df.dtypes

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