[python] Convert floats to ints in Pandas?

I've been working with data imported from a CSV. Pandas changed some columns to float, so now the numbers in these columns get displayed as floating points! However, I need them to be displayed as integers, or, without comma. Is there a way to convert them to integers or not display the comma?

The columns that needs to be converted to int can be mentioned in a dictionary also as below

df = df.astype({'col1': 'int', 'col2': 'int', 'col3': 'int'})

To convert all float columns to int

>>> df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(5, 4) * 10, columns=list('PQRS'))
>>> print(df)
...     P           Q           R           S
... 0   4.395994    0.844292    8.543430    1.933934
... 1   0.311974    9.519054    6.171577    3.859993
... 2   2.056797    0.836150    5.270513    3.224497
... 3   3.919300    8.562298    6.852941    1.415992
... 4   9.958550    9.013425    8.703142    3.588733

>>> float_col = df.select_dtypes(include=['float64']) # This will select float columns only
>>> # list(float_col.columns.values)

>>> for col in float_col.columns.values:
...     df[col] = df[col].astype('int64')

>>> print(df)
...     P   Q   R   S
... 0   4   0   8   1
... 1   0   9   6   3
... 2   2   0   5   3
... 3   3   8   6   1
... 4   9   9   8   3

Here's a simple function that will downcast floats into the smallest possible integer type that doesn't lose any information. For examples,

• 100.0 can be converted from float to integer, but 99.9 can't (without losing information to rounding or truncation)

• Additionally, 1.0 can be downcast all the way to int8 without losing information, but the smallest integer type for 100_000.0 is int32

Code examples:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

def float_to_int( s ):
    if ( s.astype(np.int64) == s ).all():
        return pd.to_numeric( s, downcast='integer' )
    else:
        return s

# small integers are downcast into 8-bit integers
float_to_int( np.array([1.0,2.0]) )
Out[1]:array([1, 2], dtype=int8)

# larger integers are downcast into larger integer types
float_to_int( np.array([100_000.,200_000.]) )
Out[2]: array([100000, 200000], dtype=int32)

# if there are values to the right of the decimal
# point, no conversion is made
float_to_int( np.array([1.1,2.2]) )
Out[3]: array([ 1.1,  2.2])

This is a quick solution in case you want to convert more columns of your pandas.DataFrame from float to integer considering also the case that you can have NaN values.

cols = ['col_1', 'col_2', 'col_3', 'col_4']
for col in cols:
   df[col] = df[col].apply(lambda x: int(x) if x == x else "")

I tried with else x) and else None), but the result is still having the float number, so I used else "".

Considering the following data frame:

>>> df = pd.DataFrame(10*np.random.rand(3, 4), columns=list("ABCD"))
>>> print(df)
...           A         B         C         D
... 0  8.362940  0.354027  1.916283  6.226750
... 1  1.988232  9.003545  9.277504  8.522808
... 2  1.141432  4.935593  2.700118  7.739108

Using a list of column names, change the type for multiple columns with applymap():

>>> cols = ['A', 'B']
>>> df[cols] = df[cols].applymap(np.int64)
>>> print(df)
...    A  B         C         D
... 0  8  0  1.916283  6.226750
... 1  1  9  9.277504  8.522808
... 2  1  4  2.700118  7.739108

Or for a single column with apply():

>>> df['C'] = df['C'].apply(np.int64)
>>> print(df)
...    A  B  C         D
... 0  8  0  1  6.226750
... 1  1  9  9  8.522808
... 2  1  4  2  7.739108

Expanding on @Ryan G mentioned usage of the pandas.DataFrame.astype(<type>) method, one can use the errors=ignore argument to only convert those columns that do not produce an error, which notably simplifies the syntax. Obviously, caution should be applied when ignoring errors, but for this task it comes very handy.

>>> df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(3, 4), columns=list('ABCD'))
>>> df *= 10
>>> print(df)
...           A       B       C       D
... 0   2.16861 8.34139 1.83434 6.91706
... 1   5.85938 9.71712 5.53371 4.26542
... 2   0.50112 4.06725 1.99795 4.75698

>>> df['E'] = list('XYZ')
>>> df.astype(int, errors='ignore')
>>> print(df)
...     A   B   C   D   E
... 0   2   8   1   6   X
... 1   5   9   5   4   Y
... 2   0   4   1   4   Z

From pandas.DataFrame.astype docs:

errors : {‘raise’, ‘ignore’}, default ‘raise’

Control raising of exceptions on invalid data for provided dtype.

• raise : allow exceptions to be raised
• ignore : suppress exceptions. On error return original object

New in version 0.20.0.

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> right = pd.DataFrame({'C': [1.002, 2.003], 'D': [1.009, 4.55], 'key': ['K0', 'K1']})
>>> print(right)
           C      D key
    0  1.002  1.009  K0
    1  2.003  4.550  K1
>>> right['C'] = right.C.astype(int)
>>> print(right)
       C      D key
    0  1  1.009  K0
    1  2  4.550  K1

Use the pandas.DataFrame.astype(<type>) function to manipulate column dtypes.

>>> df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(3,4), columns=list("ABCD"))
>>> df
          A         B         C         D
0  0.542447  0.949988  0.669239  0.879887
1  0.068542  0.757775  0.891903  0.384542
2  0.021274  0.587504  0.180426  0.574300
>>> df[list("ABCD")] = df[list("ABCD")].astype(int)
>>> df
   A  B  C  D
0  0  0  0  0
1  0  0  0  0
2  0  0  0  0

EDIT:

To handle missing values:

>>> df
          A         B     C         D
0  0.475103  0.355453  0.66  0.869336
1  0.260395  0.200287   NaN  0.617024
2  0.517692  0.735613  0.18  0.657106
>>> df[list("ABCD")] = df[list("ABCD")].fillna(0.0).astype(int)
>>> df
   A  B  C  D
0  0  0  0  0
1  0  0  0  0
2  0  0  0  0